Word: dumb
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...forehead, then takes a seat and hugs or kisses family members. There is almost as much kissing as there are nicknames. But once, when there was no seat, Father Louis stormed out of the courtroom and reamed a niece: "Where am I supposed to sit? This is a dumb family...
...addiction. Isn't there more to moviemaking than having your finger on the pulse of the world public? Can't the megalo-melodrama be infused with passion and ingenuity? The answer so far, and with just one exception, is no--not this season. For this is the Summer of Dumb...
CLUELESSNESS. Melodrama at its best involves a conflict between intelligent good and cunning evil. But it's easier just to have smart people do dumb things. The noble intentions of The Lost World's team of scientists--trying to protect the dinosaurs from a group of rapacious hunters--are undercut by some laughably inane fieldwork. They take close-up photos of the beasts with incredibly noisy cameras that are bound to startle any dino into a frenzy; they kidnap a T. rex baby to mend its leg while Big Mama prowls closer. It's knaves vs. fools in the Jurassic...
Studios would be wise to lure more foreign directors like Woo, who knows how to transform summer's dumb-and-dumber product into a gnarly, white-knuckle action film for all seasons...
Technological improvements are also needed. The library currently possesses 20 "dumb" Hollis terminals, which do not have network capability and will become unusable when the library system moves to Hollis II between November 1997 and January 1999, according to Willard...