Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just arrived at Kennedy. The usual airline food-wilting bamboo shoots -and the usual pack of media jackals at the airport asking the usual dumb questions. What is it really like being a giant panda? Is it true that I've come all the way from London to have an interpanda relationship with what's-her-name at the National Zoo in Washington? Is it true that pandas know little about foreplay...
...upset win over then undefeated Alabama last October, voluntarily repeated the eighth grade at his Valdosta, Ga., school. Says Bond: "I wasn't too hot about the idea at first. All my friends had gone on to high school, and I had new friends. I felt dumb. But I realized that at least I could get some playing time if I stayed back, so I did it. It was a lost year in one way, but I gained a lot from it." Houston Oiler Wide Receiver Mike Renfro, who repeated the seventh grade in Texas at his coach...
...Everyone peaked at the same time on the same day. We blew Yale out of the gym," Biddle said. "They were dumb-founded by the margin. It's been a long time since they were whipped as soundly as they were yesterday...
...other primary vein of imagistic painting in these surveys (particularly the Whitney's) is a vague catch-all for anything reminiscent of punk or other nouveau-wavo aggressions. "Dumb art," it is conveniently called, and some of it is very dumb indeed-but not all. One notable exception is the work of a precocious 25-year-old named Jedd Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely...
...conventions of melodrama. Around the soft center of Daryll and Tony's affair, he has woven a crazy quilt of stereotypes-the cold-eyed killer, the silent accomplice, the wealthy parents, the deranged Vietvet. At the climax-a reprise of Equus-resourceful Daryll does what every dumb thriller hero or heroine must do: wanders into an ominous abandoned building. His assailant is even dumber: he is intent on killing Daryll but won't shoot the horses protecting...