Word: dumbness
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...went on to marry high-level corporate leaders; some married into nobility. One, who remains a friend, recently told me that Vadim was jealous of her friendship with me, that he had said to her once, "You think Jane's smart, but she's not, she's dumb." Vadim often felt a need to denigrate my intelligence, as if it would take up his space. I would think that a man would want people to know he was married to a smart woman--unless he was insecure about his own intelligence. Or unless he didn't really love...
...lines by accident back in 2002, when the company started testing its new stretch-mark cream. Says Klein-Becker's Gay: "There were no directions on the tube. So some of the testers used it on their face and discovered that it smoothed out their skin. It was just dumb luck." Many products throughout the ages, of course, have promised to reverse the aging process. StriVectin's particular solution relies on peptides--strings of amino acids that stimulate enzymes in skin cells to produce more collagen, a protein that restores the skin's structure and keeps it from sagging...
...welcome America Online users received last March, when the Vienna, Virginia-based company opened the doors of the Internet to nearly 1 million customers. It was bad enough that America Online users, clearly identifiable by the aol.com attached to their user IDs, were making all the usual mistakes -- asking dumb questions, posting messages in the wrong place and generally behaving like boorish tourists. But because of a temporary bug in AOL's software, every message they wrote was duplicated eight times -- magnifying their errors and making the AOL folks sitting targets for locals already disposed to resent their presence...
That's a lot of work for a guy whose specialty is acting stupid. "A lot of people play dumb people," says The Office's executive producer Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough...
Jack fronts some dumb shit to get the scalper out of his face. The scalper pushes his shoulder and Jack pushes him back. At this point, the 200-strong line of people starts staring and mumbling...