Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to believe we were so stupid. But we'll do our damnedest to convince you we were exactly that stupid. It's better than having you believe we were misusing the FBI to help us smear top Republicans...
Several former colleagues believe that Livingstone must have noticed the list was somehow faulty--he had been in politics for a decade, after all--but that he continued to let the files come in because he enjoyed the covert thrill of it all. "I think he made a stupid mistake that mushroomed far beyond what he could have imagined," says a friend. Livingstone's lawyers deny that he was running any kind of freelance operation. He was so busy trying to process background checks on Clinton staff members, they say, that he never had time to pay attention...
...disagree" on abortion, Dole declared. "This has been the practice of the Democratic Party, which excluded one of its most popular leaders, Governor Bob Casey, from its last convention." Casey was not excluded from the convention. He was denied the opportunity to give a pro-life speech. That was stupid. But was it any more "intolerant" than what happened at the Republican Convention? There pro-choice Governor Bill Weld was allowed to give a speech, but pro-choice placards and banners were banned from the convention hall. As comparative examples of efforts to "silence" dissenters, you might call that...
...most powerful man in broadcasting is not even debatable. That title automatically goes to one of the network heads. What is certain is how badly he wishes he still held his old crown: most influential. That's what he was a few years ago, when his "stupid pet tricks" and Top 10 lists were undoing the conventions of the late-night talk show. But influence can lose its cutting edge, especially when others (see Jay Leno) begin to copy...
...screenwriter Lou Holtz Jr. can't just rest there. He must turn the cable guy into a victim of TV addiction--all he knows about life he learned as a neglected child parked in front of the tube. When its stupid pieties don't work in real life, he embraces its other method of problem solving: violence. Hard even for Carrey to riff under that weight; his director, Ben Stiller, is more awed than helpful. Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot...