Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just one of those times when you go out and you know that something is just not right," Hill said. "We just didn't seem to have everything together. We were making some dumb mistakes and, in general, were making the games a lot closer than they should have been...
From that moment, the traumatized boy acts deaf, dumb and blind; he responds only, and secretly, to the sight of himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment...
...watching a movie; I was caught up in it." The main street of Concrete, Washington, looks, after a lot of work by set builders, exactly as it did in the '50s. Tobias thinks the actors were marvelous, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Toby in a car-stealing scene, a dumb adolescent stunt that happened just the way it was filmed...
...thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that he is no better than a dumb animal...
...Bombing Case: Dumb luck helped...