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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
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> So what's wrong with "Dumb and Dumber"?  I didn't see it, but if it makes
> people laugh, bravo!  We can't all be sitting around in our elbow-patched
 tweed
> jackets, trading witty bon mots with Julie Grossman (that's a joke, ma'am!)
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> The simple message that appealed to Gump's many fans is "A good heart is more
> important than a good mind"; I don't think too many people rushed home from
 the
> theaters determined to take school lunches away from hungry children....
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> I am certainly no fan of the GOP, but I feel painting them as cartoonish
> villains is as anti-intellectual as FG is accused of being.  Maybe they are
 not
> anti-government, but anti-centralized bureaucracy and pro-local government.
> Are they anti-eduction?  Then what about Newt's job as a college lecturer --
> and what could be more pro-education that marrying your high school teacher??
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I love the movie, but your Sullivan's Travels argument is not relevant to
Newt's Contract with America.  FYI, I'm more Dior than academic tweed.
Talk about painting people as cartoonish villians (that's a joke, sir).