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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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POSH SPICE Fiance's dumb foul costs England World Cup game vs. Argies. Will she dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 13, 1998 | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Dumb-asses." We were starting to sound like Beavis and Butthead...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...husky blond kid who says he has been drug free for 17 days, is fresh out of jail for stealing a handgun he planned to sell for drug cash. The gun belonged to his girlfriend's father, who happened to be a deputy sheriff. "How dumb can you get?" Tom asks. After flashing a driver's license photo to show how much thinner he was in his meth days, Tom effuses about his newfound love of Christ. A few minutes later he reaches into his jeans jacket and pulls out a scorched, homemade glass crank pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

That said, let us review the classic taboos. Religion? Unsafe, unless you follow the example of Henry R. Luce, who had no small talk and once asked a dinner partner in all seriousness, "What do you think of the resurrection of the body?" The woman was, I believe, struck dumb. (I wonder if Luce ever used the line to try to pick up women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Who? | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...ability to fully inhabit the creepy title character in The Cable Guy may have been what made that movie, his previous venture into somewhat more demanding fare, a box-office disappointment. Even his broadest comedies have their moments of genuine pathos. For instance: the scene in Dumb and Dumber in which, having briefly come to the end of his rope, Carrey's character stares out a window and says, "You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Laugh | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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