Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong house, the officers beat both the teacher and his son Hollis, 20. Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, who had once earned black respect as a liberal sympathetic to their complaints, failed to secure an indictment from a grand jury. She said the police had made "a dumb mistake...
...DUMB RIOT...
...dumb riot," says Fullwood. "You get hurt taking other people's stuff. It ain't like they put it in the street and say 'Come and get it.' The only thing they tore up was the black area. Now I got to go way across to Hialeah to shop...
...three-piece suit and brings his golf clubs to work to practice his putting. But all this character does is rant at Thompson. Linson and Kaye seem afraid to get too serious, so instead of examining or satirizing the publisher's establishmentarianization, they pad his scenes with dumb lines about Thompson's eccentricities...
...controversy. Some of Mr. Harberger's critics threw the distinction between a political and professorial appointment to the dogs. For them, it's all politics. This is to confuse problems of a different order. On the part of the academic radicals or heretics in America, it's sort of dumb. What will become of us leftists when the majorities are entitled to judge us on the basis of our political activities and when, at best, well defined and well policed political sects are assigned a quota in the academy? And what will happen to use outcasts and dreamers...