Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Into the Great Wide Open,” Eddie, is described as “a rebel without a clue.” In this season’s Ivy League men’s basketball title race, the most wide-open in many years, a number of clueless rebels will try to end Penn and Princeton’s stranglehold on the league crown. The conference’s southern powers have earned at least a share of first place—as well as the Ivies’ automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament—in every...
...plenty of time and he still had plenty of charm. We discussed his first round of treatment, which had been some pills and physical therapy. They hadn't worked that well but Johnny was OK with that. He made reference to some famous football stories, and I, clueless though I was, chuckled along knowingly. That got us onto the topic of other interesting NFL hijinks, including, naturally, sideline injections, which segued to arthritis injections, which were going to be an option for him, and, oh, by the way, had I thought about using new "superslime" injections for my arthritis patients...
...York Posts, ranged from favorable to ecstatic. Manohla Dargis' notice in the New York Times described the film's phallo-neurosis with a gusto that soared into poetry: "If the penis is puzzled in Portnoy's Complaint, as Alexander Portnoy's shrink believes, in Superbad it is thoroughly, stunningly clueless and as violently tremulous as a divining rod at Hoover Dam." (Congrats to Manohla, by the way, for getting shrink and penis into the same sentence.) The token male critic I consulted, Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal, was just as enthusiastic: this "bawdy, big-hearted" comedy...
...physical. Instead of wanting to score the winning touchdown, they want to top their friends in the display of ribald wit. They're joke jocks. And since they don't think girls are funny (their touchstone movie "classics" are Caddyshack and Porky's, not Earth Girls Are Easy and Clueless), and since the jokes they make often have a pretty deep misogynist streak, they play to the one audience they think will appreciate them: their male friends, which is to say, themselves. To each his Onan...
...groundswell that shifted the law toward workers in 1991 because civil rights advocates aren't sure these Justices are a threat to workers' rights. Last June, for example, they made it harder for employers to retaliate against employees who complain of discrimination. That left the Ledbetter ruling looking particularly clueless. "I heard the decision and thought, What is wrong with this court?" says McMillan. "It just doesn't live in the real world...