Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women suffer in the form of rape, they also suffer completely legal abuse in the courtroom--where rape victims are rarely presumed innocent. No argument there. Since this is by now a truism, director Lamont Johnson has the courage to make this one point unequivocally. The rest is pure, dumb contrivance: Stuart rapes Chris's little sister, Chris shoots him on the spot, and a contrite, now-sympathetic jury acquits her for her own crime of passion...
Well, now you're older, and even though all those dumb jokes aren't getting any younger either, you can still give them all a second chance in the Winthrop House JCR this weekend. Charlie Brown, despite his advancing years, and despite the fact that newspapers are pushing both him and Jules Feiffer aside in favor of Doonesbury, is still young America's quintessential nebbish, every little boy's and girl's Woody Allen-writ small. Charles M. Schultz's cutesie-pie pop-psychological ponderings have been adapted for the stage by Clark Gesner...
Unhappily, Ginny is equally onedimensional. A confessed "easy lay, spiritually," she makes Candide look like a graduate of assertiveness-training school. She has plenty of wise-girl things to say about her passively dumb behavior, but she has not really learned any thing from her myriad misadventures...
...about as bad as we could play," said coach Harvey, blaming the loss on too many turnovers. "We played dumb," he said...
...From the same family as philodendron and dieffenbachia (dumb cane), which are also poisonous...