Word: dumbness
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...gave form to the object. Perhaps the closest I can come to describing it is to say that I felt a little like I imagine a tent pole might feel—assuming that the pole is vaguely aware that it looks ridiculous but still finds a kind of dumb self-satisfaction in holding the tent...
...know about mating psychology wrong, which is not surprising, because it deals in extreme caricatures of one or two stereotypes rather than examining the actual literature on human mating…So on the whole I found the so-called ‘theory’ a rather dumb oversimplification of what we know about mating, and the language and tone of the site immature and crude.” Psychology concentrator Maura E. Boyce ’05 agrees. “My initial impression of it was that it was a lame interpertation of the evolutionary attraction that...
...most successful scenes in the picture is her own invention. After a highly charged few minutes with Bogart, late at night in a cheap hotel room, [Bacall's character] Marie retires to her own quarters. At this point in the shooting, Miss Bacall complained, 'God, I'm dumb ... If I had any sense, I'd go back in after that...
...Abrams' spy fantasy Alias is not the smartest show on TV. It is perhaps something better: the smartest dumb show on TV. But writer-creator Abrams has competition this season--himself. Lost (ABC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T., debuts Sept. 22) has an even more ridiculous premise. A transpacific flight crashes on a remote island, leaving a few dozen survivors of a type that suggests that the best protection against a 30,000-ft. drop is good hair and low body fat. The plane was a thousand miles off course and out of radio contact--the survivors are stranded...
...needs. "I'm just having a great time," says the Stanford economics grad, who plans to start his own business. "I'm not taunting anyone. This is a professional sport--it needs help. It needs fans. And if someone says, 'I heard this crazy pole vaulter that does these dumb dances is going to be at a track meet. Let's go check it out,' I've done something right...