Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fraudulent property sales and fakery of U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the sheer volume of such crime distracts Interpol from any interest in such divisive matter as spying-or so it proudly claims. "In an affair involving politics, religion or race," runs one of its prime rules, "Interpol is deaf and dumb...
...likes the cut of his job, but though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...
...rooms had huge bags of the same material, which were regularly puffed up and then deflated by wind machines. To some, they looked like pillows for the Jolly Green Giant, to others, like an overwrought udder. Levine explains that he goes in for environmental art because "paintings are dumb. A person should be able to move through his environment and absorb what is happening...
...reaction to the "summies" is not difficult to understand. Certainly not all the girls are dumb--Wellesley sends probably the largest contingent other than Radcliffe--and not all of them tease their hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your own kind, so you don't feel terribly close...
...Named for the 19th century French Positivist philosopher who added the word "sociology" to the language. * Playboy has itself practiced entrapment at times by hiring private investigators who pretend to be eager Johns and ask club bunnies for a date. If the bunnies are dumb enough to accept, they may get fired...