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...cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Excess | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...dough? Well, the dough is cool, but I don't want to be 85 years old and have my grandkids go, 'Ewwww. Grandpa did some dumb s___.' I'd rather have them say, 'Wow, man, you're nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing It Depp's Way | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...every Athena production, on the night of the last dress rehearsal, I write a really dumb poem about the production and send it to the cast/crew lists in order to psych people up for the show. Then, while the cast is warming up at every performance, I give “symbolic gifts”—usually really cheap stuff I buy at CVS that has to do with the show in some way. I guess this has very little to do with the “creative process,” but it gets people excited about...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...other in a series of six simultaneously smart and stupid films, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander and Meet the Parents. Stiller, whose parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were a comedy team in the '60s and '70s, updates Lou Costello with an agitated everyman, while Wilson does the smartest dumb guy ever, thanks to a slacker knowingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: He's With Him | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...There is no such thing as a smart, safe or dumb mine. Would you send your children out to play in a soccer field full of American smart mines?" JERRY WHITE, director of Landmine Survivors Network, on the Bush Administration's plans to phase out traditional land mines by 2010 but leave the door open for the use of "smart" mines, which can be programmed to SELF-DESTRUCT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Mar. 8, 2004 | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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