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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woodward, pleading with Psychiatrist Patrick O'Neal to take an interest in her husband's work. As the sleazy wife of a roughneck Greenwich Village poet, Joanne belts out her best lines with actressy intensity and proves only that she is too bright a blonde to play dumb. Somewhat more at home with his role-a poet with a sex life as breezy as James Bond's-is Sean Connery, who displays some proof of his versatility by shouting a lot. While earning a buck on the payroll of Athena Carpet Cleaners, Connery seduces a private secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Non-Compos Comedy | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Cohesive Conclusion. Yet the great majority of the Negroes of Watts accepted the verdict without rioting. A window or two were smashed; a Molotov cocktail arced through the darkness. But the facts of the Deadwyler case-demonstrated to all through the dumb, impartial TV eye-carried conviction. Negro witnesses contradicted one another repeatedly, offering little to back up Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler's story that Bova had stuck his revolver through the car window to shoot her husband deliberately. One swore that the shot was fired from a moving police car; others divided on the crucial point as to whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Deadwyler Verdict | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...told me, shortly after the thalidomide story broke in, 1962, that his firm would be marketing thalidomide in the U.S. within six months. Some businessmen seem closely related to snails, judging from the rate at which they're facing up to the fact that consumers are not so dumb as they used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1966 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

There are a couple of new offerings. Maureen O'Hara's daughter Quinn is Rathbone's daughter Sinistra; Deborah Walley is Kirk's semifrigid girlfriend; and one Aron Kincaid does a "new" Hollywood type--the dumb blond beachboy...

Author: By Mark Randall, | Title: The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like me to talk about that," he says, "but what the hell, I'm no angel. I'm a soldier, just a plain old dumb sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: No Time for Sergeanting | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

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