Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sears missing an opportunity? It has already missed Lisa Fontes, a 36-year-old Massachusetts psychologist who went to sears.com last month hoping to buy a freezer. The Sears site, however, didn't have what she needed. "I assumed I couldn't find it because I was stupid or computer illiterate," she explains. But the real illiteracy may have belonged to Sears. It doesn't yet sell freezers online...
...relationship, stupid. We've always accepted the fact that it would be intensified from time to time by the interruptions of various noisy MacGuffins--wacky car chases, imploding and exploding urban structures, the odd psychopath or two. But what we liked was solid, stolid Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) trying to cope with the erratic behavior of his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), who didn't much care whether he lived or died and therefore courted death with alarming candor...
...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...
...cliche--it ends sappily ever after when Reilly, the yuppie boy, realizes love can somehow outweigh money--the characters are stereotyped to the point of offending. Throughout the novel, all the Italians living in Reilly's North End neighborhood are either connected with the Mafia or are vulgar and stupid thugs, while the Boston Irish are crude drunks (including Reilly's mother!). The women are beautiful yet emotionally damaged by problematic relationships with their fathers. Even Reilly's supposed best friend and roommate cannot escape the ethnic pigeonholing, as he hails from an Orthodox Jewish family, and, therefore, has hair...
Finally, my bias on this issue is two-fold and conflicting. On the one hand, my mother is a professor of education. Some of the students who have been waiting anxiously to get their test results, waiting as they are called stupid and ignorant by politicians who cared little about education until something went wrong, are her students. She is one of the professors granting the diplomas Speaker Finneran likened to used tissue. She is also someone deeply committed to education, someone skilled in and passionate about the training of teachers. She, like the rest of us, is waiting...