Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANDY GREEN Dept. of Dumb Records. So what if a jet plane on wheels breaks the sound barrier? The Wrong Stuff...
...people. But, in her article, Rawlins goes farther than that. She writes, "Right now, most of Harvard's students-as women and as people of color-do not have adequate representation on the council." Her reason is not that the current representatives are irresponsible, or negligent, or even downright dumb. Rather, she justifies her claim by stating that "last year, white male undergraduates were doubly represented by their student government...white men made up 50 percent of the council, but only 25 percent of the student body." Therefore, students who were not white and male were "underrepresented...
When I sat in one of those folding chairs three years ago, I was dumb enough to think of what Rudenstine said about "journeys" and "adventures" in terms of classes. As for the "life" part, well, I figured that it would be sort of like a high school summer program, the kind of thing where I could go home after a few months and say that the people were "amazing." What made people "amazing," as far as I could discern, was that they were really, really smart...
...shock-rocker Manson's Tourniquet, we are treated to the sight of Manson shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have a ghastly playfulness that evokes David Lynch and Federico Fellini...
...CARREY and LAUREN HOLLY's hillside wedding ceremony 10 months ago had the air of risky, throw-caution-to-the-wind impetuosity about it. The two hitched up on the set of Dumb and Dumber in 1994, split up and got back together again just before the nuptials. Alas, the risk didn't pay off. Holly filed for divorce from the spandex-faced comedian on June 25, citing--and this is the shocking part--irreconcilable differences. The split had long been rumored, partly because Holly and the director of her new movie Long Time, Nothing New, Ed Burns, seemed...