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...opponent is a pencil-necked geek) 60% of the vote, and two months after his Inauguration, he starts to brown around the edges and disillusionment sets in, starting with the people who once worshiped the ground he trod on and now see that, alas, he is a dumb cluck like everyone else and has no solutions for problems such as ignorance and cruelty and the aging process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...voice-overs la Kevin in "The Wonder Years." Of course, the issues at stake are more perverse. "They say a man who screws a woman honors her," we hear after Paul rebuffs her advances. Later, she observes, "Women are the victims men need for atonement" and "Love is dumb--it's just a power trip." Perhaps Breillat wanted to instill some intellectual momentum by exposing us to Marie's inner musings. The voiceovers awkwardly drive the slow, slow scenes. Ducey's throaty voice (amplified by French gutturals) can be irritating as she incessantly harps about her appetite for sensual stimulation...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breillot: Porn to be Wild | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...your roommates to see you sweat, Brine Sporting Goods offer dorm room friendly equipment. Brine's Sporting Goods (29 Brattle St.; 876-4218; Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.). Score jump ropes, ankle weights, dumb bells, etc. Products range in price from $12 to $40. Head to Brine's if you want a chin-up bar ($19.95). But you'll have to go to City Sports to purchase a one-size-fits-all neck developer...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Physical | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...initiatives that approved assisted suicide had all the messy attributes of democracy, including emotional debate and dumb ads, but the state has carried out the law with care. Oregon hasn't become a Hemlock Society convention--only 15 people committed suicide with a doctor's help last year--and other states are mulling similar laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painful Debate | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Certainly it leads one to re-examine the premise of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Up to now they have been our gross-out geniuses (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary), and Miramax wouldn't mind if you thought Outside Providence was more of the same. But adapting a novel by Peter and working with director Michael Corrente, the siblings, who also produced this film, maintain their best quality, which is a kind of unblinking frankness about our basic humanity, while skipping the bathroom jokes. You won't miss them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of God and Doofus Teens | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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