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Word: dopey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrests him; dresses up as a rodeo clown and nabs a bad-guy bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they need to hide $250,000 in counterfeit bills, which he stows under the folded-up top of his pink 1959 Cadillac convertible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dippy Harry | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...howlingly bad excerpts from old antidrug shorts, soft-core porno and previews for grade-Z melodramas ("Terrifying realism! Claws at your unbelieving mind!"). The Video Doll Shoppe, from the New York City-based Video Resources, is a compilation of doll commercials from the 1950s and '60s, including a gloriously dopey promotional film from the Ideal Toy Corp. describing the invention and manufacture of Betsy Wetsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Freaks, Dorfs and Betsy Wetsy | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...sell off its treasures and keep Cinderella's Castle as their trophy. But a man named Roy, noble nephew of the late Uncle Walt, sought help from the one person in whom everyone could believe: Prince Michael the Creative. When Michael arrived, there was rejoicing along Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive. The happy sounds even attracted a wealthy white knight named Sid the Bold. "Michael puts a smile on my face," proclaimed the once somber Sid. The kingdom's citizens, singing "Hi ho, hi ho," went back to work, making more magic than ever before. From somewhere far beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...never boring and always entertaining. The only scene that I completely hated was the last one, which is equally despicable in the novel. Rather than involving cocaine, it involves a loaf of bread. And while it is one of the few scenes without drugs, it is completely dopey...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Coke Adds Life | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...world. Control of the world? What a snap! It's control of oneself that takes real skill. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. An entire stage of life compressed into a symbolic five-week journey of light and dark, crying and singing. And here comes Captain Midlife, dopey as the day is short, hollering orders into the gale, hailing other captains as they pass one another in the night, captains of industry, of law, of medicine, even of ships; every one of them a champion faker, every one knowing that under their stupefying bonhomie thuds the pulse of a hysteric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Captain Midlife Faces Christmas | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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