Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some students thought it was dumb, and others thought it to have some wonderful subtlety," he said. "The debate ranged from views that this show and others had gone too far, to arguments for more freedom. Some people even suggested that 'Beavis and Butthead' should be shown on Saturday mornings...
...time there was no way I could put somebody else in that position," Nero said. "As director of my program, I also try to protect my counselors and my kids. [Osborne] did a dumb thing, but her Harvard education should not be put at risk any more than mine should...
Second, some of the must-miss movies of the summer: The Flintstones. Yabba-dabba-dumb. The one frisson of joy you get from seeing live action versions of all of the dinosaurs disappears about 15seconds into the trailer. What all that talent was doing in there I can hardly imagine. Moment of wit: the B-52's cameo...
Women can sometimes use stereotypes to their professional advantage, she said. For instance, they can ask "dumb questions" and garner much information from people who underestimate their intelligence, Marshall said...
...Forrest is hardly the first idiot hero to ride through a fiction, bodies dropping all around him. The Czechs celebrate the apparently obtuse Good Soldier Schweik, whereas in terms of plot Voltaire's Candide might have been a Gump pilot. Yet Schweik is not so much a defense of dumb optimism as an argument against militarism and a celebration of sly peasant smarts. And Candide may be literature's most ferocious send-up of cheeriness in the face of the world's cruelties. By its end, its battered hero has abandoned his opening premise that everything happens for the best...