Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOVIES . . . THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES: Two Columbia professors, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance...
...firm in his commitment to continue being a media gadfly. He mentioned, however, the difficulty of finding "people with politics" to staff the show. "It's just a pitiful state of satire in this country," he said, complaining of the domination of "junior high school, boy's locker room, dumb humor" naming as an example the Harvard Lampoon. He then ticked off his personal list of requirements for a staff member: satire experience, but also chutzpah, political convictions (his, probably), and a sense of humor. "I'm serious. If you have these things, we're looking for you," he said...
Back to the point now. If a movie is dumb, the Harvard men's hockey team won't mind, as long as there's enough blood. And in "Youngblood," the climax is not a goal but a fight...
...over-dressed seniors at worst are only passively annoying, though. The students who ask stupid questions after the initial presentation are actively bothersome. Whoever said that the only dumb question is the one that isn't asked certainly didn't have to sit through one of these informational meetings. Some students simply ask vague questions which have been answered dozens of times before, in the firm's presentation and its literature, such as "What makes your firm different from others?" This is the ubiquitous opening question and elicits the most predictably banal response...
...next time someone calls a football player a dumb jock, ask him what a 35 Veer Right is. Then tell an offensive lineman what he just said...