Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eszterhas has urged teenagers to use fake IDs to get into his movie, to which Hollywood czar Jack Valenti declares, "Someone who would make that statement needs professional counseling--it's so palpably stupid." The screenwriter also insists the film has a modern, even feminist moral: "The message is that you don't have to sell your soul to make...
...well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point in fighting for territory that the negotiators might soon take from them anyway...
...dodge of responsibility, admitted he was firing at a fleeing fourteen-year-old, but had the audacity to suggest that Randall Weaver (who was also fleeing toward the cabin at the time), shot his own son in the back. Please, I may be naive, but I'm hardly that stupid...
...that the nearly 200 million shares that Time Warner proposes to issue for Turner would reduce the value of their investments. Others point out that the deal would bring Time Warner $2.9 billion in new revenues and $600 million in fresh cash flow. "Time Warner isn't paying a stupid price," says Jeffrey Logsdon of the Seidler Companies investment firm in Los Angeles. "It's a healthy price." For Levin and Time Warner, it's the price of being No. 1 again...
...time, the L.A. County courthouse was picketed in O.J. Simpson's defense. During a noontime rally by the N.A.A.C.P., demonstrators chanted, "No justice, no peace," waving placards that attacked the prosecution's evidence, the L.A.P.D.'s tactics and Ito's ruling on the tapes. "We are not deaf, dumb, stupid, blind or living in denial," declared protester Morris Griffin. "We have seen this case. We have seen contamination, corruption, conspiracy." Vendors sold T shirts bearing pictures of Ito and Fuhrman in the cross hairs of a rifle...