Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought John Kennedy down to the L.B.J. ranch in Texas and, much to Kennedy's distaste, forced him to go out shooting deer. Urbanity recoiled at bloody, redneck crudeness. That's how the moment was interpreted at the time. Hunters belonged to the oaf class, Elmer Fudds who were dumb enough to be flimflammed by Bugs and Daffy: "Duck season! Wabbit season...
When your acting debut involves playing a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard in the first-ever rock opera, what do you do for an encore? If you're ROGER DALTREY, lead singer of The Who, you sign up to play that lovable old misanthrope Scrooge in the community-theater stalwart A Christmas Carol. When he takes the stage at Madison Square Garden later this month, Daltrey, 54, will perform not with his longtime bandmates but with the quaintly impoverished Cratchit family. Why would a rock star who once typified disaffected youth take on such a role? "It interested...
...found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish Our Dumb Century, a compendium of mock front pages from editions of the Onion that, of course, never existed (JOHNSON VOWS TO HONOR KENNEDY'S MEMORY BY TAKING PLUMP YOUNG MISTRESS). And Dikkers says the Onion is talking with one of the networks--he won't say which--to do a special based on the book next...
...intriguing idea to another--and leading people there--ever since the love-bead days when he edited the Whole Earth Review. In this short, trenchant book, he explains how the networked economy is turning old economics upside down: the more plentiful things are, the more valuable they become; dumb parts, when connected, yield smart results; and if you really want a business to grow, give away your product free. Fun reading--even if you aren't trying to figure out how to survive online...
...have 50 years ago, when they emerged from his shack of a studio on New York's Long Island. But how great is "great"? Meaning has drained out of the idea of greatness because today it is so inextricably confused with fame, and fame with celebrity, all on the dumb level of publicity--and Pollock is the most publicized and celebrated artist in American history...