Word: silliest
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Trump filed a libel suit in 1985 against the Chicago Tribune's architecture critic, Paul Gapp, for having written that his plan to build the world's highest building portended "an atrocious, ugly monstrosity, one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city." The judge ruled for the critic. Trump even sued Eddie and Julius Trump, two South Africans unrelated to him, who had run a small conglomerate for 20 years before expanding into the U.S. in the 1970s. "They're trying to use my name," said Donald, who lost a preliminary suit. Another...
...short stories and a two-volume, 1,500-page autobiography: "I did a Dick Cavett segment on June 3. It was my fourth time with him. This time I was publicizing The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, so I came out with a bra over my eyes . . . It was the silliest thing I ever did on television, and I was sorry I had agreed to do it even as I stepped out onto the stage...
...irony of the 1988 campaign is that while George Bush and Michael Dukakis are both bright and able men, this campaign has been criticized as one of the silliest, least substantive in history. Over the past several weeks my conviction has grown that the way we conduct a presidential campaign is not good enough, and we should set about trying to improve...
...SILLIEST RHETORIC. Pat Robertson's denunciation of the French Revolution and his depiction of the A.C.L.U. as something akin to a terrorist organization...
...smirks, Little Shop is in the end a cowardly disappointment. The stage show earned respect because it showed universal dramatic rules applied in even the silliest of situations-- Seymour paid for his crimes. Oz told The Crimson he had originally shot the film with the theatrical ending, but that "test audiences" in San Jose, Calif., "didn't go for it." Movies have to have happy endings, he was told, and thus his Little Shop appeared with a happily-ever-after conclusion that contradicts what the play was about...