Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game should have ended 6-5, and we all could have told our grandchildren about seeing a football game with such a dumb baseball score...
Even if Bok is tired of the issue, he has no excuse for giving Harris such shoddy treatment while people are dying in South Africa every day and the mammoth crusade is an example of dumb college humor...
...plot, like Kabuki, has become stylized. Boy with zits and chutzpah lusts after girl with good complexion. Girl becomes infatuated with Vitalis man, who is dumb but fulfills basic elements of the Eisenhowerera American dream...
...learns to believe in himself (because if he doesn't, he's nobody, and doesn't deserve to make it with the clean-skinned dumb blonde). Girl number two, who though insanely beautiful has been ignored for more than an hour of the film, comes to his rescue (cf: Secret Admirer). He humiliates Mr. Vitalis and they go on an old-fashioned date...
...BUSINESS carries the same 30's drama, with a different sex swap. Sure, Joel actually says, "Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck.'" But what he's really saying, desperately, is that "sometimes you just gotta fuck." What do we have for our lucky couple? Well, for the dumb, anxious, ersatz blonde, there's Tom Cruise, the dumb, protohulking, died-brunette--and vice versa (if you haven't lost...