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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People told me students would be apathetic at Harvard, but Jesus...I'm 6' 10" and no one knew that I played basketball!! There are a lot of negative things here for athletes. The big, dumb jock image is a classic mockery. People say, "ugh, you sweat...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

Richard Harris is introduced as a dumb fisherman intent on collecting specimens of marine life for sale to aquariums. In the course of his work, he carelessly kills a female whale who is pregnant. This turns her mate into a psychopath of the seas, lurking around the harbor of the fishing village where Harris does his brooding. Orca is soon wreaking much colorful havoc on the townspeople and their works. In the end Harris is forced to put to sea and fight like a fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shallows | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fernwood and the Gall | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...pipeline leak led to an explosion that killed one worker and injured five others. Interior Department officials last week concluded that poor training and a mixed-up chain of command were the causes of the PS 8 tragedy. Said an investigator: "Three or four people did some really dumb things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: A Pipeline To Nowhere? | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...role may be overwritten, but Spradlin underplays it beautifully. It is no joke going one on one with him for possession of your own soul. The conflict of wills between him and Benson-though it may be implausible in some of its details-is just the kind of dumb confrontation an eager kid and a rigid systemaniac can stumble into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some People to Root for | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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