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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Enough with the Jokes, Already | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fattening Them Up for Football | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Crimson Fencers Split Meet With Yale | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Single-Minded | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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