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...sonorous work, but the show really belongs to Broadwater and Hodgson. They’re always on stage, ceaselessly searching for life’s secrets even though they wouldn’t recognize a secret if it bit them in the codpiece. And both actors telegraph their dumb anxiety with skill: their practiced spontaneity doesn’t seem practiced in the least—every laugh line feels unforced, each note of despair feels natural...
...more than eye-candy adventures to eat popcorn by. It’s a miracle that America’s film critics aren’t so battered by high-decibel Bruckheimer clones by summer’s end that they lose all objectivity and shower kisses on the dumb, earnest Oscar bait of early fall...
First-years all remember the harsh meeting during the first week of school, with its predictable Harvard ego-padding (“You’re among the best and the brightest”) and then, paradoxically, some forceful and insulting pronouncements about how dumb we are. Assistant Dean of Freshmen Lesley Nye explained that “Harvard students aren’t smart enough not to drink themselves to death...
Beliefs that Harvard students are both bright and dumb cannot coexist in any sort of coherent policy. Either we are the mature and intelligent creatures of our deans’ fawning tributes, or we are so inept that proctors and deans need to hold our hands. But the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) has not clearly chosen a side...
...King has been acknowledged over the years by both in their use of him as a producer and collaborator. The spandexed sybarites in Aerosmith have never been much for tradition, which makes their blues obsession more subversive and dynamic. On the surface they churn out big, dumb power ballads, but Joe Perry's wailing guitar lines and Steven Tyler's lyrics ("I was cryin' when I met you/Now I'm tryin' to forget you") would have Leadbelly nodding in recognition...