Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American middle class is accustomed to protracted adolescence almost as an entitlement. Disorienting, then, to confront the sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world. H.L. Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb. Finnegan catches perfectly the way ordinary America today may pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year...
...employer] is a guy, and he has ablond, size double-D in front of him and findsthat attractive, that definitely is part of hisassessment," she says. "It's sad. Some people willalways have an advantage on that side if they'renot completely dumb...
...perfect a male animal, a figure from whom, in fact, everything animalistic--for that matter, anything jaggedly human--has been blanched? There comes a time when you'd give anything if Tom would yell at the kid, swat the horse on the nose or maybe just tell some dumb, dirty joke by the campfire...
...working principle. Early in the century one of them wrote that unless they ignored presidential confidences that they saw or heard on the job, the Commander in Chief would never let them close enough to provide protection, and so a Secret Service agent, he wrote, must be "deaf, dumb and blind...
Just when feminists and parents were pulling out their hair because the Mattel Barbie was reinforcing dumb-girl stereotypes right and left, moaning "math is hard," Brooks and Dunn were praising their "Little Country Girl," who got dirty looks in high school because "she got an A in math and never cracked a book...