Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your roommates to see you sweat, Brine Sporting Goods offer dorm room friendly equipment. Brine's Sporting Goods (29 Brattle St.; 876-4218; Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.). Score jump ropes, ankle weights, dumb bells, etc. Products range in price from $12 to $40. Head to Brine's if you want a chin-up bar ($19.95). But you'll have to go to City Sports to purchase a one-size-fits-all neck developer...
...initiatives that approved assisted suicide had all the messy attributes of democracy, including emotional debate and dumb ads, but the state has carried out the law with care. Oregon hasn't become a Hemlock Society convention--only 15 people committed suicide with a doctor's help last year--and other states are mulling similar laws...
Certainly it leads one to re-examine the premise of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Up to now they have been our gross-out geniuses (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary), and Miramax wouldn't mind if you thought Outside Providence was more of the same. But adapting a novel by Peter and working with director Michael Corrente, the siblings, who also produced this film, maintain their best quality, which is a kind of unblinking frankness about our basic humanity, while skipping the bathroom jokes. You won't miss them...
...impart a certain moral and melodramatic force to its story. Its kid hero, Hogarth, is full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations...
...were so dumb," he laughs. "We watched the belt swing over our heads, never suspecting what they were going...