Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finding the culprits, acknowledged Donald Kerr, the FBI's laboratory chief, "is going to be arduous." Luck can play the defining role: even after the FBI knew how the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, they might never have found out who did it if Timothy McVeigh hadn't made the stupid error of driving without a license plate...
...been able to leave Harvard Square, or at least not venture more than a few miles away from it. With every painfully un-airconditioned June, I have burst into my temporary new life with enthusiasm, tons of clean underwear and the profound realization that I may have made many stupid mistakes the summer before, but that was a year ago and I know everything now. And with the dawning of every September, I inevitably slink back into the dining hall with a fresh new haircut and a matching set of regrets...
...director and his writing colleagues hit lots of right notes: franchise instability, hyping broadcasters, endless play-off seasons, even the exploitation of Third World children in the making of sporting goods. One team dresses its cheerleaders in dominatrix outfits. Subtle is not Zucker's middle name. But neither is stupid. If his comedy is more useful than youthful, let's count that as a sweet surprise, a minor blessing...
...reached in any direction from the edge of the rectangle, there was nothing, and there was nothing to see. It really looked like a "limitless space." I was very impressed, and now it is my favorite piece, because it tricked me into thinking that it was stupid...
...interpreter had major difficulties, breaking off sentences to start new ones, leaving some key phrases untranslated. The result was disappointing. The Chinese host of the broadcast criticized the interpreter outright, and a Beijing official later observed to his daughter in the U.S. that Clinton came out sounding like a "stupid man who cannot finish a sentence." The State Department has asked for tapes of the broadcasts so the interpretation can be "checked for quality control...