Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfair to tell people that privilege has left them dumb of the ways of the world. Such an assertion insults not only their intelligence and autonomy, but compassion. We are all capable of critically evaluating our enviroment, its impact on us and our place in a wider sphere...
...luxury of separation brings the Wexlers closer together. They agree to meet for family meals and outings without using dumb phrases like "my own space" or "quality time." This couple is about as normal as it gets these days is what Barthelme seems to be saying. For comparison there are Lily's brother Ray and his girlfriend Judy, whose idea of a reunion is to fornicate in the driveway...
...gained a little weight. I didn't eat well. But you have two choices in life when you're faced with a challenge: you can either rise to it and take care of yourself, or you can let it get you. I'm taking care of myself. This sounds dumb, but I'm eating better. I drink fruit juices and water. I'm in fighting shape. I'm exercising frequently. I'm literally in better shape. I'm clearer of mind than I was in January. I've just made a decision that I'm not going...
...story's ostensible business is to maneuver invincibly innocent Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), an N.Y.U. film student fresh from Vermont, into close proximity with the massively knowing Carmine. A street-dumb kid is just what Carmine needs for one of his nefarious schemes and might also be, as he sees it, just the thing for his spirited daughter (Penelope Ann Miller). But the film defies both convenient description and conventional logic, and in fact it gets into desperate expositional troubles toward the end. This is a movie one loves for its incidental pleasures, not its ultimate intentions, whatever they...
This all takes place before Sam is killed by someone's--duh duh duh dumb--hired hand in what would seem to be your garden variety mugging. Not to worry--Sam's death does not appreciably cut Swayze's time on screen. It does however, cut down on his wardrobe. Swayze wears the same outfit when he meets the only person who can hear him, psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg); when he has has Oda Mae contact Molly, and sting the man who hire his killer; when, finally, predictably, he saves Molly's life...