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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible to hope that Good Will Hunting may partake of the same exuberant spirit. Damon's title character, Will Hunting (isn't that cute?), is a janitor at M.I.T., solving impossible equations a professor leaves on a blackboard. After hours, though, he joins his lowlife South Boston cronies for stupid boozing and brawling. Class issues, rarely raised in American movies, seem about to be interestingly engaged. But no, Will's inability to find love and embrace his upscale destiny is the product of childhood abuse, the memory of which he must recover. This brings on Robin Williams as--what else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TALES OF YOUNG MEN AND THEIR DREAMS OF GLORY | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...surveillance mission--or merely locked the plane in its radar-tracking sights. "If he lights up a plane with radar or takes a shot, that'll open the door to attack," a senior Pentagon official told Time. "We're just waiting for him to do something stupid so we can whack him." But as long as Saddam avoids that rash move, the President's options will remain less than perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

North: I'll take "More Stupid Answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Mitchell: That's a stupid answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...recent afternoon in Rhode Island, Connor was asked how such a smart guy could be so stupid as to be sitting behind bars, yet again, in a pair of mustard-dumb prison-issue duds? Connor didn't have much of an answer. But 40 minutes to the north, at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, Mass., Billy Youngworth did. Youngworth, 38, who as a boy took martial-arts lessons from Myles and has had a parasitic relationship with him ever since, said Myles, a member of Mensa, is endlessly interesting and charming, "but he attracts mutts." Billy being Exhibit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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