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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side of his mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good old American know-how. Best of all, the film makers have found in Richard Gere an actor who can play a dumb, crazy punk and make the audience like him. It is a breakthrough performance for an actor who has brooded prettily over various victimizations in the past, but never showed this strength of characterlessness before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Punk Spunk | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...DUMB SHIT (Sell-annointed, no Harvard affiliation) of St Paul (3:29). "It was a piece of cake--no it was though Tonight I'm gonna eat a ton of spaghetti...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: Marathon '83: 'Boston Or Bust' | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

...Dumb Shit...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: Marathon '83: 'Boston Or Bust' | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

...then saw that the amount had been left blank, to be filled in according to the diner's conscience. "Face it," says Wolfman, "waiters in nice restaurants are serving people they know are deducting the bills racked up in those places. Lower-and middle-income people are not dumb just because they don't have loopholes. They know a significant distinction when they see one, and they resent the well-heeled using tax-free expense accounts and legal shelters to get out of paying their fair share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating by the Millions | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Kiley agrees that television is an important medium, but denies that White can win through a massive advertising campaign alone. "If Miller Lite doesn't taste good, the public may try it once, but they won't keep on buying it," says Kiley. "Americans aren't dumb and they aren't that fickle...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Seven Candidates Heating Up Race for Boston mayor's Seat | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

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