Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directorial career, maybe this is a quirky suicide note. For the actors, it's no big whoop. Young stars need to be in at least one dumb ugly movie like this one. Next year it'll make a cute-embarrassing story to tell Jay Leno...
...like this," says Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, a "smart growth" Democrat who was elected last year. Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...
...always been a greeting-card snob. My rules: No dumb jokes, no trite sayings and definitely no electronic greeting cards. As far as I was concerned, only a cheapskate would send an electronic greeting instead of the real deal, signed in ink and sealed with a kiss. So I was more than a little skeptical on my birthday when I came across a message in my e-mail In box titled "Celebrate--From Martin." But when I clicked on the message and followed its instructions to copy a Web address into my browser, my cynicism melted. There, bursting onscreen...
...American inner-city life. But this book is one that transcends those interests. I found myself reading passages again because they were so full of a simple, quiet strength of character and intensity of spirit which allows the narrator-heroine to endure the trials that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current of the story. While the novel falls down occasionally in the use of an inner-city dialect which author Connie Porter has trouble translating into text, the skilled use of deliberately, nakedly...
...Either too dumb or too weird (yes, there is such a thing as too weird for Harvard), these kids really have no place among...