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...prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas. Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle to Revere Beach every morning...
...been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically announced, "I'm going to take off this stupid medieval rag right now." She told Libya's dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, that she was going to conduct a "kind of trial" of him to find out "why you are so little liked in the world." She says of herself: "I make scenes, I yell and scream." As the Anna...
...autonomous groups make people develop. Take one guy they had, who was considered to be stupid. He was a bit peculiar, about ten years behind in his mental development, very fixed to his mother. He had been mobbed at school and he didn't have any friends on the job. He was put on simpler and simpler tasks. He worked so slow that he couldn't be considered an ordinary worker, part of his wages were paid by the government...
...output at the lowest price, as ultimately damaging to the producing states. Anti-American rioting in Iran has made involvement with the U.S. seem even more unwise. Such oil ministers as Iraq's fiery Tayeh Abdul-Karim and the Emirates' Mani Said Utaiba argue that it is stupid to swap valuable and nonrenewable oil for increasingly inflated dollars that Washington might some day freeze anyway, as it has done in the case of Iran...
...West Germans, the Morgan Guaranty action was an unnecessary power play that, because of the court action, threatened to propel West Germany directly into the U.S.-Iranian conflict. Said a finance ministry official in Bonn: "It was a damned stupid thing to do. This is endangering not only our business interests, but the lives of 1,500 West Germans still in Iran...