Word: dumbness
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While the players provided the excitement onthe field, Penn Coach Patrick Baker provided thecomic relief from the sidelines. In the game's57th minute, a frustrated Baker angrily yelled atthe referee, "Hey, ref, are you blind and dumb?Why won't you talk...
...player trying to leave the game so he can finish law school. Worm (Edward Norton) is a gifted, dishonorable player given to dealing from the bottom of the deck. The mystery of Rounders is why a smart guy risks repute, not to mention life and limb, to help a dumb and self-destructive one. Still, if Rounders lacks the sardonically twisted plots and people of Dahl's best work (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction), it is, like them, well acted and atmospherically arresting. The director fails to fill this inside straight, but it's grimly suspenseful watching...
...church and that Lyons has to go -- whether or not the feds lock him up. "To drag millions of people through all this mud is a shame," said the Rev. Charles Kenyotta Tuesday. "In the 118 years of our existence, we've never had a president this dumb." Joe Lieberman would say amen to that...
...most catastrophic consequence of the Big One, though, won't be property damage; it will be loss of life. It could easily have happened already, in fact, except for pure dumb luck. The Weather Channel and CNN's round-the-clock coverage notwithstanding, hurricane forecasting is not as precise as people like to believe. Storms are capricious. Indeed, the National Hurricane Center's warnings, issued 24 hours before landfall, are subject to a 90-mile error in either direction...
...cell phones come with a built-in pager? My phone, which is by no means extraordinary, even allows people to send me text messages or e-mail. The two-way pager--or enhanced pager--is supposed to save the messaging industry because it turns the once proud but dumb beeper into something that talks back...