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...warp speed. Romantic: frenetic Doc smitten by love for -- who else in a western? -- Mary Steenburgen's lovely schoolmarm. Deliciously anticipated: the appearance of Marty's bullying nemesis Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), this time got up as his distant ancestor Buford ("Mad Dog") Tannen, the dumbest gun in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Smiles | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Staffers consider Marshall an honorary journalist and value his extralegal advice; he even catches occasional grammatical errors. Senior editor Jose M. Ferrer III recalls asking Marshall to review an early draft of a story. "He said there was no problem legally, but that it was the dumbest thing he'd ever read in TIME," says Ferrer. The story was killed. Some fielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jan 22 1990 | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...dumbest interview question of the tournament has to be awarded to a query directed at Harvard Coach Bill Cleary at the post-championship game press conference...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Talking About the Wrong Stuff | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...weeks earlier Page One of the New York Times's Week in Review gave the cartoon expression of this glum sentiment: Michael Dukakis and George Bush, pint-size brats, sticking their tongues out at each other in infantile fury. The 1988 election is, by general agreement, the dirtiest and dumbest election in recent memory, maybe ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Lighten Up, This Campaign Isn't So Bad | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the other "winner" of the election, with a surprising 14.5% of the vote in the first round, declared full and outright opposition. Le Pen, who on election night pugnaciously called the rest of the political right "suicidal" and the "dumbest in the world" for refusing a pact with him, thrust himself forward as leader of the "national, popular opposition" and the "only real alternative to Socialist power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Holding Most of the Cards | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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