Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bird may be countrified, but he is canny in the style of Will Stockdale in the play No Time for Sergeants. "I'm pretty smart on the court, if not so smart in real life," drawls Bird, hinting he is not too dumb anywhere. "He has an instinct," Cousy says, "a natural feeling for the sport, vision, long arms, unselfish attitude"-up to this point, Cousy could be describing himself-"and everything else you might want to order. He's the most innovative player." His specialty: one-time-only passes for one-time-only plays...
Dershowitz has been contentious since his boyhood in Brooklyn's Boro Park section, but his intellectual powers were rarely applied to schoolwork. "You know, Alan," said his high school principal once, "you're very dumb, but you're very verbal. The only thing you can be is a lawyer." At Brooklyn College, Dershowitz suddenly became a serious student. He went on to Yale Law School, where he had what he calls "my first experience with anti-Semitism." The top student in his class, he applied to 32 Wall Street firms for a summer...
...dresses in historical costume or mythological nudity and has himself photographed (not only as Dante, but as Christopher Columbus, Don Giovanni and even Leda), is a natural clown. But as a painter he is fatuous, and his watercolors, full of Donald Ducks and magic mushrooms, would have looked dumb on Haight-Ashbury 15 years ago, let alone in New York today...
General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fears that the Soviets might use a single multimegaton airburst over the U.S. to strike the entire nation?and its defense nerve centers?deaf, dumb and blind. Insulating the American command-and-control network against EMP, to preclude the possibility that the U.S. might be unable to fire a single shot, is one of the many
There were more perfect moments than anyone could have hoped for: playing Mattel Electronic Football with Ben Poquette; having big Bob Lanier call me a "dumb white boy" after I ran over his size-22 foot with a vacuum cleaner. And then giving me a big smile...