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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies - about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just another dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just an other dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Merry Xmas from Uncle Walt | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...want to grow up to be any dumb guy," said one Manhattan slum kid recently. Such children know adults who cannot even read the want ads, and sense the despair of unskilled teen-agers loitering on streets where drink, dope or death is the only exit. Yet as other Americans reach new heights of affluence and aspiration, slum kids are made to feel all the more worthless by their poverty and the color of their skin. Often, dinner is a hamburger served in a paper bag; books are nonexistent; home is a rooming house so transient that in a recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Civilizing the Blackboard Jungle | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Trains & Pipes. She is only 22, says she has an IQ of 162, but knows that intelligence means little in Hollywood. In three new movies-Come Blow Your Horn, Who's Minding the Store? and Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?-she plays three dumb broads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Smoking Toad | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

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