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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Ain't Dumb, He's My President | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...sure you guys probably get this a lot, so I apologize for asking this, but how did you guys come up with your band name? I read on the Internet that it means "Dimwit Reproductive Monkey" in Welsh...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rare Welsh Bit | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...largely of Robbie, wired and miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...crisis from Central Casting: exquisitely timed, high profile but manageable, with an identifiable villain--an unsympathetic power utility worthy of the mayor's scolding, warring self. "This isn't a natural disaster. It's a man-made disaster," he barked. Only a dimwit wouldn't realize "that in the summer, it gets hot." He's keeping score: "We had nine arrests last night. In '77 there were 850 fires set, thousands of arrests and over $100 million in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rudy's Playground | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...would call Lowell (Bud) Paxson a dimwit. He is an unusual sort of TV executive, certainly: a born-again Christian who makes more money than headlines and counts among his achievements the Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network Starter Kit | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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