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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series gives the idea more dimension. Buffy, like many of her TV peers, must deal with an absurdly clueless parent (her mom doesn't know she's a vampire slayer); the insularity of generic suburbia (Buffy lives in familiar but fictional Sunnydale, Daria in Lawndale); and a dumb but popular nemesis, Cordelia, who sets out to test Buffy's coolness quotient on Buffy's first day at school. "Vamp nail polish?" Cordelia inquires. "So over," Buffy confidently answers. "John Tesh?" Cordelia persists. "The devil," Buffy replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

ROBERT BYRD Bars aide's guide dog from Senate floor, but Lott wisely changes no-canines rule. Dumb deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...then 4-2 and then we had a dumb foul at the end of the half," said junior Keren Gudeman. "It felt like a close game and that we were in it, but they came out quick at the start of the first half...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Ivy Foes Top W. Lacrosse | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

When it comes to unraveling a Washington scandal, the best clues often come from the most clueless. They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb. So it was in the best Washington tradition that congressional investigators were focusing their attention last week on a former interior designer with a remarkable knack for placing herself near the hot spots of trouble for her old friend, Bill Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHO IS MARSHA SCOTT? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...Midwesterners have a sixth sense, and it's the sense of inferiority, a feeling that if we were really any good, we wouldn't be living here. This can lead to truly dumb attempts to compensate, such as a recent article in a local magazine saying that Minneapolis is as hip as New York City. The magazine is the sort that goes in for cover stories like "Twenty-Five Best Sunday Brunches" or "Thirty-Six Ways to Turn Your Bathroom into a Place You Would Want to Spend the Entire Afternoon In"--and the article was terminally dopey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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