Word: dumbness
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...through his fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition, "but as soon as she read, a veil came over her and she totally inhabited the character. She had tons of spontaneity...
...rather liked being a kid. Immaturity has always struck me as a good trait, whether it be making dumb jokes, shooting rubber bands at people or watching "Scooby Doo." And the Mystery Machine gang is just as cool as it was in second grade...
...that finality that Amber's and Alicia's friends, at an age when they think they are immortal, are now left to make sense of, and which they understand--almost. "It was dumb," says Michelle Williams. "They didn't even get a chance to live--to feel how it is to drive, to grow up and have kids. They're probably saying right now how dumb...
...still drawn to the kind of female geometry that excited their caveman ancestors, but this atavism only seems to make them resentful. My dear brother, for example, a man whom the concept of political correctness persistently eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the appellation "bimbo," with its implication that a great bod is incompatible with normal intelligence. Possibly also relevant here is the masochistic T shirt that says SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body...
...think I give a hoot about what possible ethical violations [NATION, June 10] (not even criminal acts) Bill and Hillary Clinton may have committed almost 20 years ago? I'm not sure there's a person living, this side of Mother Teresa, who didn't do at least one dumb thing 20 years ago. CHRISTINE GRASDORF Fayette, Missouri...