Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before I saw So Fine, I tried to think up clever ways to describe what I was sure would be yet another tasteless sex comedy. How many ways are there to say dumb, unfunny, and sexist? I almost wished I had seen Bo's A Change of Seasons just so I could draw some comparisons...
Another paperback bestseller, The Second Official I Hate Cats Book (Holt Rinehart Winston; $3.95), makes no pretense whatever of liking Felis. The animals pictured by Cartoonist Skip Morrow are uniformly fat and dumb-and alive-and they get a variety of comeuppances in ways that manage to be amiably humorous. The two I Hate books have 575,000 copies in print. They too have stirred a barrage of virulently pro-feline protest mail...
...exceed 10¢. Helms alone does not drink strong waters of any kind. "I'm dumb enough without it," he says...
...concedes. "I can hardly believe it myself. If the court says I am guilty, then I don't want them to put me in jail. I want them to put me in the nuthouse." Major Don Doyle of the Austin police department agrees: "Nobody wants to send the dumb s.o.b. to the penitentiary...
...Public Theater musical, Alice in Concert, for which the playwright, her friend Elizabeth Swados, was roundly panned. "It's insane to have winners and losers in art. We live in a society plagued by sports mania. To say that one performance is better than another is just plain dumb. You wouldn't think of comparing two colors in a painting, would you; this blue is better than that blue...