Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Pacific, where his father was director of trust territories for the State Department. Bill attended Eastern prep schools, spent his senior year of college in England, then traveled to Australia and worked on a sheep farm. "I assisted in the birth of many sheep-they're really dumb animals, they'd come out feet first. But I found that doing what you want to do-and for me, for now, it's acting-is like those sheep giving birth: it's pulling your past up with love and pain. I've found something that...
...that is for sure. For everyone who doesn't know the difference between a down-and-out and being down-and-out, there are a couple who think reading period is the time when a quarterback tries to figure out a defense. Not that the bookish wonks or the dumb jocks are revered characters on campus. There is really no such thing as a Big (Wo) Man on Campus at Harvard; few people could pick the quarterback of the football team or the head of the student government out of a lineup. But that both the wonks and the jocks...
...esegesis on who or who isn't a capitalist when it comes to this movie. Or to read about what economic values any given character represents. They look just like us. you see (only cheesier), but do they think like us? There is a very strange, and very dumb defensiveness going on here. At the ideological heart of the whole Us vs. Them, communist vs. capitalists (both nice 19th century words) or Art vs. Propaganda, lies the same quandary--namely, who are you out for--yourself or the guy sitting next to you on the train? We all talk...
...spent trying to show, not simplify Katerina, makes it possible to show, not simplify her romance. And why? Because their affair is so clarly not Hollywood, and yet it's as close as you're ever likely to come. He refuses to make it easy and slick and dumb. It's a love affair against all odds, and though it will certainly lose in the end, it is as good as things can get without being celluloid...
Watt's long-range plans call for the leasing of 1 billion acres of offshore tracts within five years. Aside from the ecological damage this might cause, Edwin Rothschild, director of the liberal Washington-based group Energy Action, argues that the leasing is "a dumb business move." Reason: it would quadruple the area opened each year for exploration at a time when oil companies are finding it difficult enough to develop profitably the tracts already available. Watt's answer is that he expects the oil companies to determine which tracts should be developed. Says...