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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything. Madeline Kahn is so luscious in the role of the fiancee that she seems even sexier with two vertical white streaks in her hair as the Bride. The lab assistant, Teri Garr, is cute and makes the most of inevitably dumb lines...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Mel Brooks's Graveyard Smash | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...strongest asset because I have had to develop a method of communication that does not include illustration." He leaves actors alone, but "they can show me anything." He never comments on a character, instead draws out a motivation from the actor. "I do not believe actors are children or dumb. They are complex people with sensibilities equal to mine in a different direction." Says Geraldine Fitzgerald, whose appearance in Ah, Wilderness! is one of several she has made with the company: "He reminds me of Max Reinhardt, with whom I worked in Sons and Soldiers in 1943. For both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sweet Dreams | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...have always found that the other side of a giant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked. Where else would that apply more? (Except perhaps on Capitol Hill, but there they have to get used to having a shoe clerk tell them what dumb jerks they are every two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Goal: 'Move the Administration Closer to the Faculty' | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

That was how James Thurber described Bolenciecwcz, his quintessential dumb jock, in My Life and Hard Times. Though a caricature, Ohio State Tackle Bolenciecwcz was not entirely ludicrous. Sport and education, particularly higher education, have never been a common combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Double Life of Egghead Jocks | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas Books: Looking Backward | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

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