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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, however, the other school of thought: that Billy, whose home-town friends insist is "not as dumb as he appears," conned the Libyans into giving him-or loaning him-the money although he knew he had no influence over U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...afford: Cheech in a T-shirt, bright green pants and flip-flops; Chong all in white, with high-top wrestling sneakers, a green translucent belt and tinted glasses. "Hey," says Cheech, gesturing at his clothes, the microphones, and the cameras and smiling knowingly, "We're not as dumb as we look...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...book about Helen Keller," she responded. Lash says his granddaughter--and others like her--remember the story of Helen Keller because she ranks among a number of select historical figures that people can identify with. "It's very easy to understand why," he says. "Here is this woman deaf, dumb and blind and everyone has the same reaction. And it's the reaction that I had--who am I to complain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk with Joseph Lash | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

Later that week I saw Alice B. Toklas, also bedridden. She told me she had been in love with Picasso. When I told her I had seen Fernande, she said testily, "Oh, yes. Fernande. So pretty-and so dumb." The old ladies remained in character, didn't they? And when I saw Picasso that winter he seemed half the age of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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