Word: dumbness
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...TALKIN' TO YOU, NIGGER," A voice hisses as the visitor walks through the gloomy passageway. "Faggot," taunts another. With every step comes a whispered insult, a mean murmur: "Loudmouthed kike! Lousy gook! Dumb Polack! Camel jockey! Red-neck bastard! Sexist pig! Goddam beaner! Get whitey!" A wolf whistle rings out and a leering voice calls, "Hey, baby." And with every message of hate, the feeling of alarm grows. "What you gonna do about...
Worse still, this obsession with appearance makes it especially hard to get to know Harvard women. Many raise their guards around all men, large and small. I'm not dumb--I know there are reasons for this. Some men deliberately try to take advantage of women. And men can be particularly cruel to women who don't look good...
Leroy built the stairs. But even this dogged optimist, who says he is "only a dumb swamp Yankee," can see that his wife's "eyes are full of disappointment." Yes, in him -- a reproach tempered by Patricia's realization that he has stayed, through 20 years of her illness, because he remembers her as she was and could be again. Now he wants her to live for something more than gratitude: "You just have to love this world...
...parents looked big for a week or so, sparking hopes of a real estate boom as 10-year-olds sought their own condos. Menopause mania proved to be a flash, so to speak, in the pan, and "smart drugs" couldn't compete with the far more numerous dumb ones...
John Leguizamo gave himself an acting tour de force as all six members of a troubled Hispanic family, from nerdy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their amiably lowlife mother Gladyz, in hilarious monologues that moved beyond performance art to become a true and deeply moving play. The production by Chicago's Goodman Theater transferred to off- Broadway...