Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next onscreen line was harder to forget: "Are you ready for me, Ralph?" The movie was Paul Brickman's uproarious young-'n'-dumb flick Risky Business, and no one was ready for De Mornay. She was a call girl with a heart of Kevlar, growling seductively at the stupefied Tom Cruise, who played a suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went...
...ready for destiny's casting call. Writer-Director Paul Mazursky auditioned Molly for a crucial role in his film Tempest. "I came in, and Paul told me he was going to throw a penny at me for every dumb thing I said. Whatever I said, plink, he just kept tossing them. Pretty soon he was throwing nickels and quarters and dollars, and I just kept talking. When the interview was over, I reached down and gathered up all the money and put it in my pocket. He asked if he could have his money back, and I said...
WATER IS A very funny movie. It is also a really dumb flick. The laughter produced is greatest when the gags are the most idiotic. The audience guffaws amidst cries of "How stupid...
...dumb prank. And one that, from the facts that have emerged and have been confirmed by Core Curriculum and Science Center officials, clearly called for some kind of College punishment. But these freshmen didn't get a warning. They didn't get academic or disciplinary probation. They didn't get kicked out for one semester. They got a year--a permanent and possibly devastating smear on their records--and absolutely no chance to appeal to another body...
Also, good doctors get good patients. Their patients are all wealthy which means they are smarter than the average guy who just happens to be the turkey waiting at UHS to get inferior treatment, which proves how dumb he is; and he is the kind of patient UHS gets, which proves that their doctors are not any good or they would get better patients...