Word: dumbness
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When he proposed his set-point theory eight years ago, Lykken came to a drastic conclusion. "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller," he wrote. He has since come to regret that sentence. "I made a dumb statement in the original article," he tells TIME. "It's clear that we can change our happiness levels widely--up or down...
...funny, I told them sheepishly, over an incredibly awkward schmooze at Daedalus. As an associate, I was in awe of Rachel E. Dry’s seemingly endless store of random knowledge. During editors’ meetings, whenever she would begin a sentence, “Is this dumb...” the rest of us knew she was about to pitch some incredibly off-beat, but incredibly interesting story. Rachel always seemed to know which obscure academic to contact for a story, or what former Crimed could be a potential source. It was she that led me, dragging...
...Heaven, but now she has an iPod on which she listens to “trip-hop” while killing vampires with a bow and arrow. It is just as holy a role only more aggressive. Professional wrestler Triple-H, in the role of a vampire thug, seems dumb, but conveys no actorly mannerisms. He is either really dumb or really good at acting really dumb. Kris Kristofferson is good at affecting Jesus with a laconic absence of humor, which I suppose is a skill in itself, like Al Jolson’s dancing in blackface. James Claveziel, take...
It’s tempting for those of us who have recently lost an election to conclude that American voters are just stupid. As one British headline ran: “How can 59 million people be so DUMB...
...what you really want to know is why Alexander was such a failure. Well, it sucks too. But Mr. Oliver Stone is probably right—we dumb Americans just don’t understand him. Take it to Western Europe, and give us more Jude Law movies...