Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen sold his consulting firm, Potomac International Corp., to Peter Hannaford, a former Reagan aide. But in a financial disclosure report filed with the Office of Government Ethics last February, Allen wrote that he sold the firm three years earlier. He claimed last week that it was just a "dumb mistake." Yet by stating that he had sold the firm in 1978, he avoided having to reveal the worth of Potomac International and its sale price. He disclosed last week that he had received...
...restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...
...place, which just opened up this fall, wants desperately to be the college hang-out, and continually offers cheap specials on food and drink to draw in the collegiate crowd. Don't go here after dinner, though for by about 10 p.m. the Brewery has turned into just another dumb, psuedo-cool pick-up joint. The money they lose with their early evening specials, they make up later on their ridiculously over-priced drinks. We were charged $1.75 for 10 oz, plastic cups of draught beer...
...Yale guys like to play dumb, don't you." Beth says, a certain twinkle in her eye, awaiting the predictable response. But for you, a Harvard guest at Yale, there is the moral dilemna, based on the olde rivalry. Should you play along, and be a Yalie, just for one night, or will you be true to your school? Be-wop, shaboom...
...shot from above, or from behind as they cheer some arm-waving uniformed leader. If individuals appear, they represent stereotypes--broad smiles, broader biceps. But the camera in Workers '80 singles out men. Some have the handome Walesa look, bushy mustaches, broad shoulders; some are bignosed, homely, dirty, or dumb-looking; for the most part, just people. Workers standing, arms folded, listening to the negotiations over public address systems. Workers knelling to receive communion. Workers smoking cigarettes, drinking, eating dinner, or looking bored...