Word: dumbness
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...trusted to make decisions? And as to the false characterization that to theorists like MacKinnon “women are always victims” —who are we here, Ann Coulter? Where are we, on CNN’s “Crossfire”? Why dumb down a complex and nuanced argument...
...prefers getting things right on the first take - he is also, somewhat paradoxically, well known as an actor's director, which he surely is here. None of his performers have ever been better. Whatever impulse they might have to indicate that they might merely be playing dumb has been drained out of them by the director's driving pace...
...into a shoving match with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the floor of the House and this spring was dubbed "Mount Obey" by Politico, a daily Hill newspaper and political website, because of an eruption at anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich for asking what Obey deemed a dumb question...
...stanzas that propel the poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous nature of Pinsky’s thoughts. Pinsky’s confusion emanates from each page as he jumps from idea to idea with each successive couplet. Each poem, he writes, “is acting dumb...in a smart-ass way involving the contradiction of naming.” Unfortunately, some poems are too successful in embodying Pinsky’s confusion and fail to move the reader. These vignettes, overwhelmed by jumbled thought, sacrifice meaning for style. Ironically, the character of “Gulf...
...years: how moviemakers have jettisoned subtlety in their attempts to appeal to a teen audience, how shades of gray have been coarsened to simple blacks and whites, how everything then was better than anything now, etc. etc. That alterkocker argument might be made to apply to the Farrelly brothers' dumb-down of the Neil Simon-Elaine May Heartbreak Kid, which I was unkind to last week. But it doesn't work on Sleuth, an art-house effort with more modest box office aspirations, a much loftier collection of talent, on and off screen - and, you'd think, an unwreckable scenario...