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...Ventura II: When Nature Calls." I'm not entirely sure, in fact, whom this is a film for, other than future stalkers of America. While Carey does provide just enough moronic humor to induce vomiting, his role does not hearken one's mind back to the salad days of "Dumb and Dumber." Instead, we are greeted with an eerie and disturbing tale, meant, it seems, to expose to us the dark side...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Jim Carey Should Be Unplugged | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

...string are used to designate the year. Calculations are based on constantly going to a higher number, and when 99 goes to 00, the computer will think it has gone to a lower number. (Sure, the computer should know better, but let's face it, computers are sometimes dumb as dirt.) Magenta will start to run. "As an example," I was told, "bonds that pay more as the number of the year goes higher will pay less because the number will be lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APOCALYPSE, NO? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...games. And there's also Pat, one of few men to stuff the All Star ballot boxes with votes for Paul Sorrento (his nephew). A good friend of the sports department, Pat has supervised this place for decades and I'll sure miss being called a "dumb s%&t" come September...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Final Notes | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...like a bunch of first-year graduate students are coming in having bought into a bunch of lies," says the graduate student in the social sciences. "They're not that dumb. The real question is what's happening to the attraction of talent...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Graduate Students Face Unfavorable Job Prospects | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...crime, by cutting federal income taxes for District residents. This idea makes sense because people here have no real representation in Congress and pay the highest combined local and federal taxes in the U.S. But you can almost hear the lawmakers chortling at the very idea that people dumb enough to re-elect Barry deserve a tax break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividing Line: MARION BARRY: CAPITAL OFFENSE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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