Word: dumbness
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...decades he has been the anti-Bernard--a craftsman so light, lithe and likable he almost disappears into his best films. He was Debra Winger's unworthy husband, coasting on amiability, in Terms of Endearment; the -er half of Dumb & Dumber, with Jim Carrey; the Pleasantville soda-shop owner who is turned from a black-and-white cipher into an artist painting in glorious Technicolor...
There is a refrain repeated around Harvard again and again, and it goes something like this: Harvard is admitting too many dumb jocks and, somehow, athletic recruiting is deteriorating the quality of the student body. This view, as it is presented around campus, at times publicly, is pretty bold. It’s also wrong...
...actually have to just dictate a story off the top of your head on the telephone, if you're at a breaking news event. I've done that a few times in my career, and never had that much of a problem with it. But I was struck dumb on the first night of the war. I was just absolutely terrified. Nothing prepares you for being suddenly on the front line of an invasion, with 200 cannons going off, and people returning fire, and being in the pitch black in the desert, knowing that you're just going forward across...
...after the fall of the Wall. Ruth Kranz, 37, a teacher from Wolfhagen, near Kassel, intends to vote for Merkel but marvels at the disarray: "It almost looks like Stoiber and the other cdu/csu men want to prevent Merkel from becoming Chancellor. Otherwise, how can you explain such a dumb move...
...acquaintances talking, and here's a question that comes up: Would you rather be skinny but not be able to eat, or be fat? Everyone said they'd rather be skinny, because if you're fat, you never go anywhere. If you're fat, you're ignorant, lazy and dumb as a doorknob. That, I can proudly say, is not true...