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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title that, in cases like ID4, they will actually add one where none exists. They like attractive, squabbling, invariably "brilliant" scientists who do stupid things: piss off dinosaurs, drive into tornadoes, piss off dinosaurs AGAIN. Plus, these people hate Emma Thompson, because she was in that dumb pregnant-man movie with their pal Ah-nuld. What was up with that...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Take, for example, Starship Troopers, which on first glance seems like as dumb a blockbuster as they come. The premise of the film is to corral a truly mind-boggling number of Aaron Spelling bit players into playing futuristic action heroes fighting giant insects on the planet Klendathu. The movie doesn't skimp on the gunfire or the chomping, stomping Bug Things, which of course are its major selling points...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...familiar material or they'll love it because it puts an original spin on the same tried-and-true Sundays product. On the one hand, the old mellow ambiance is there, along with the familiar existentialist love themes: "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do/it's dumb--I know what I want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps the quartet explore these comfortable themes more fully than they could in their guitar based pieces. The numerous string parts on "Cry," for instance, cooperate...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Just Another 'Static' Sunday | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...occured when Smith came to the inane spoken voice part of "Wrong Number" and simply laughed it off. Another strange part of the night was that, unlike Smith and Gallup, who were clearly engaging the audience, keyboardist Roger O'Donnell seemed to be in his own world, maintaining a dumb smile on his face as he stood still...

Author: By Sumeet Garg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Cure for the Common Show | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...Sahr is kind of the poster boy of the whole term-papers-for-sale flap on the Net. The issue resurfaced with fresh hysteria a few weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHWATCH: THE GREAT TERM-PAPER FLAP | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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