Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vented their collective spleen in the process. As a result most men now know what women have known all along: that males do not posses a monopoly on intelligence, strength, ambition, or desire. Clearly any man who hasn't gotten the message by now is either deaf, dumb, or decaying inside a donut shop somewhere, clutching a newspaper that reads, "LINDBERGH LANDS...
...Under Fire is as duplicitous as it is busy. It has been sneaking in this direction from the beginning, showing all government figures as almost comically dumb and decadent, all rebels as rather decent sorts. One wishes it would state its sympathies openly, and perhaps allow Price lo assert his craftsman's integrity and his disgust with everybody who wants lo turn his camera into a deadly weapon. Bui that assertion requires an ability lo make fine judgments and take a long view that no one, except the actors, has brought to the enterprise. Without a sufficient measure...
...thing" a one-in-a-thousand shot. John Aboudara, a San Francisco engineer, and his wife Susan were victims. Says Susan: "We have two young kids, and that money could have been spent much better than giving it to someone we didn't know. It hurts to be dumb...
...most fearsome of these creatures were carnivores, like the ferocious Tyrannosaurus, which seems to have feasted on its fellow dinosaurs. Others, like the long-necked Brontosaurus, the archetypal dinosaur of cartoons, were gentle, browsing vegetarians. In spite of their comparatively small brains, dinosaurs were not dumb, floundering brutes. Deinonychus, for instance, was a fleet, two-footed creature with scimitar-like claws on its hind legs, grasping hands and dagger-sharp teeth. It apparently hunted in packs, in the manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs...
...with the assumption on the part of people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though. I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated like a dumb model, because there was a growing ring of truth to it. I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic...