Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent presidential possibilities whose names provoke excited speculation and furious whispers include notables such as General Colin L. Powell and Senator Bill Bradley. But Lowell Weicker? Wasn't he that really dumb guy on "Wings...
Take Crichton's dinos: unlike the dumb, drab, ponderous monsters that once graced the textbooks, his animals are smart, nimble and decked out in designer colors. The wily, vicious velociraptors are green with tiger stripes of bright red. Tyrannosaurus rex is the hue of dried blood. And a dino called Carnotaurus sastrei is a superchameleon, its skin capable of taking on the look of anything--a leafy branch, a stone wall or even a chain-link fence...
...first time, the L.A. County courthouse was picketed in O.J. Simpson's defense. During a noontime rally by the N.A.A.C.P., demonstrators chanted, "No justice, no peace," waving placards that attacked the prosecution's evidence, the L.A.P.D.'s tactics and Ito's ruling on the tapes. "We are not deaf, dumb, stupid, blind or living in denial," declared protester Morris Griffin. "We have seen this case. We have seen contamination, corruption, conspiracy." Vendors sold T shirts bearing pictures of Ito and Fuhrman in the cross hairs of a rifle...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
...contrarians caution that the major players may have the wrong idea--that someone like Malone, by striking deals with everyone, is positioning himself better than is Michael Eisner, who for better or worse will now be tethered to ABC's network. "The risk is that some dumb deals will happen just because people are feeling they'd better buy something," says Tom Adams, a media analyst based in Carmel Valley, California. "It's almost a panic out there," agrees Derek Baine, an analyst with Paul Kagan Associates. "There's going to be a lot of dealing this year.'' But will...