Word: dumbness
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...such dumb luck that I started playing, but I feel like I'm very cut out for rugby in a lot of ways," Steele said. "In a fourth-grade game of capture the flag a kid was just standing in my way as I was about to cross the line, and it didn't even occur to me to go around him. I just dropped a shoulder and rammed into...
Admit it: you've wondered why beautiful people rarely have any state-of-the-art skills. Are they born dumb, or does something happen to them during childhood? (Unless you're beautiful yourself, you've had those thoughts, so stop rolling your eyes and making that "phhht" sound...
...brought John Kennedy down to the L.B.J. ranch in Texas and, much to Kennedy's distaste, forced him to go out shooting deer. Urbanity recoiled at bloody, redneck crudeness. That's how the moment was interpreted at the time. Hunters belonged to the oaf class, Elmer Fudds who were dumb enough to be flimflammed by Bugs and Daffy: "Duck season! Wabbit season...
When your acting debut involves playing a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard in the first-ever rock opera, what do you do for an encore? If you're ROGER DALTREY, lead singer of The Who, you sign up to play that lovable old misanthrope Scrooge in the community-theater stalwart A Christmas Carol. When he takes the stage at Madison Square Garden later this month, Daltrey, 54, will perform not with his longtime bandmates but with the quaintly impoverished Cratchit family. Why would a rock star who once typified disaffected youth take on such a role? "It interested...
...intriguing idea to another--and leading people there--ever since the love-bead days when he edited the Whole Earth Review. In this short, trenchant book, he explains how the networked economy is turning old economics upside down: the more plentiful things are, the more valuable they become; dumb parts, when connected, yield smart results; and if you really want a business to grow, give away your product free. Fun reading--even if you aren't trying to figure out how to survive online...