Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heaven Can Wait--Warren Beatty does it all in this rather stupid movie. Our sources say it's enjoyable, but incredibly dumb...up to you. If you're thinking of reincarnation, you'll love this...
...accuse Martin of mismanaging the club. Steinbrenner and new president Al Rosen have made several stupid trades, leaving Martin with an ever-shifting roster and not enough of what he needed: pitching. The constant hounding from players, and especially from Steinbrenner, made Martin a very unhappy man, and in the past few weeks his photos revelaed an appallingly haggard face. It was all too much...
...friction dates back to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's pronouncement shortly before the 1976 election that he wanted to see President Gerald Ford defeat Carter ("It was stupid," a chancellery aide now admits). Since then, Carter and Schmidt have wrangled over nuclear non-proliferation policy (the Germans want to sell fuel-reprocessing plants), Washington's public crusade on human rights (the Germans think it's preachy and unsophisticated) and economic policy (the Germans think Washington must cut oil imports to strengthen the dollar). Only last week, when asked about his relations with Carter in a television show...
News of Young's interview broke in Geneva just as Vance handed a message from Carter to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concerning Shcharansky. "Shit, shit, shit," screamed one ranking member of the Secretary's party when he learned what Young had said. "That stupid son of a bitch." As for the usually calm Vance, "what he said was unprintable," reported an aide. The Soviet news agency Tass promptly and predictably trumpeted Young's remark as "an official admission that political persecution is widespread in the United States...
...queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed her . . . But she ruined my life...