Word: dumbness
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...easing the nose gently up toward 12,000 ft. above New Mexico. I was sitting in a Learjet's jump seat, wedged between two pilots with half a century of experience combined. There were no airplanes around for miles, and we were cruising smoothly along, as aviators say, "fat, dumb and happy." This is what flying today is supposed to be about--if you can make it through security...
...into the Discovery Zone store in Brattle Square and tell the staff that, in the spirit of Columbus, you’ve made a “discovery” of your own: Their store is dumb...
...Mann but to Fastlane (Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), about two buddy cops who use--and destroy--confiscated sports cars and other pricey toys to catch high rollers. It disproves the theory that TV, a middlebrow medium, is neither as smart as the smartest movies nor as dumb as the dumbest. Fastlane is, blissfully, exactly as dumb as the dumbest movies. Made by the uni-monikered director McG (Charlie's Angels), it reproduces the high-gloss, empty-calorie experience of a summer action flick, down to the loud soundtrack and the black-guy-white-guy jokes. It's crass, pandering...
...efforts of Crimson Key to preserve its noble, Caucasian heritage have not just been limited to ass-dumb op-eds in The Crimson and Independent. Keysters have also been boldly continuing their proud tradition of manipulatively seducing innocent, white first-years during freshman week. Complained a shaken Trisha D. Young ’06: “Warren [W. Warrenthorp III ’04] was white in all the wrong places?...
...performing schools; afterward, the number receiving Fs fell from 760 to 200. Michigan, California and Nevada are weighing similar actions. Says California's state schools chief Delaine Eastin: "We're almost surely going to have to lower what we define as proficient." Experts warn that the incentive to dumb down standards will only grow as the stricter provisions of the new law take effect, a move that could brand more than 70% of schools in some states as failing...