Word: dumbness
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PENN: No, I tell you what bothers me. I saw that part on television from my hotel room before I got there, and the problem was that this f__ing punk town that we work in, nobody in that f__ing place booed the dumb joke. Chris Rock's really funny and talented, and in a three-hour set you're allowed to make bad jokes, but the audience should respond. Instead, it's just a bunch of schadenfreude-ists sitting there wanting Jude's parts and looks...
...chairman of a commission on campus unrest, then betraying his own insecurity by reminding Linowitz that "I went to Whittier College, not as good as Hamilton [Linowitz's alma mater], but a good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied with minor details that Linowitz learned to play dumb with him. To give the President a number, he recalls, "would have been the first step down an endless path" toward ever more detailed and irrelevant questions. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was calling Linowitz by his first name five minutes after they had met; Israel's Menachem Begin later informed...
...remember grownups, don't you? Used to see them in the movies all the time. And they can still be found occasionally in real life. They are the ones who work in dumb places like the lumberyard, always remember to buckle their seat belts and regard an afternoon fishing at the lake as entertainment every bit the equal of Miami Vice. They are also, of course, the ones you can't imagine having sex, an interesting past or competence in any field of endeavor that is remotely amusing, let alone thrilling...
...sense in the long term." Of course, the same was true of New York. If we'd held on to that dud apartment for a few more years, it would now be worth about three times what we paid for it. In retrospect, buying it wasn't nearly as dumb as selling...
...School has started teaching NFL players how to make money after the whistle blows on their gridiron days. Which means the College finally has a leg up on its across-the-River peers: After all, we’ve been teaching economics to dumb jocks for years...We can’t resist: Visiting lecturer—and the original gadfly—Elvis Mitchell flitted and flirted at Grafton Street last Saturday night at a pre-arranged after-party for a film screening held at the Law School. The dreadlocked one chilled out with a posse of students...