Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets out and passes by the 7-Eleven, he won't decide to rob it. That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses. He has four more years to serve of his fifth Texas prison term. "If I am dumb enough to get in here again," he says from behind a wall of steel mesh, "boy, I'll tell you, I'll deserve...
Maybe all sequels should be made in 3-D. Imagine how tiresome it would be to see Jason, the monster in the hockey mask, polish off another group of dumb teenagers in an ordinary print. But this time, as they gambol through the woods whose mean paths he endlessly stalks, the sundry sharp and blunt instruments that are always ready to his hand come at them and the audience with a certain vivid super-reality. It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and the fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Director Steve Miner...
...bland--a far cry from the exemplary Horatio that Earle Hyman gave us here in 1958. In a traditional doubling, Michael Allinson is effective both as the possibly angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing them with harp and guitar accompaniment (original music courtesy of Joe Griffiths...
...Dumb marches on. The insidious movement to anesthetize the American moviegoer's mind, which began with Animal House, picked up converts with the Cheech and Chong farces and came close to sweeping the country with Porky 's, may now triumph with Young Doctors in Love. The picture is just gross and artless (and canny) enough in its flat, untextured sitcom way to attract millions of eleven-year-olds who have left their brains in their classrooms. Its humor is based on brand-name recognition: if you're aware of the particular movie, video game or soap being...
...profoundly favored place. No oil, of course. Oil was the geological dumb luck of certain desert peoples. But Lebanon had beauty and protective fastnesses in its mountains. Shrewd and unusual people found refuge there, sects like the Maronite Christians and the Druzes. Lebanon was never really a nation in the ordinary sense, but a sort of charmed collection of tribes. Its pace in the old days was a delight. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who has written about Lebanon since 1946, remembers the hospitality of the countryside, the farmers in their fruit groves forcing a stranger to accept gifts of grapes...