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The Enquirer maintains that Gore's adherence to the Atkins diet has "dumbed him down" and "impacted his thought processes": The avowed environmentalist is eating steak and recently approved a resumption of whaling.
At a time when most pop best sellers seem dumbed down to please a focus group, Cornwell is a rarity: a writer with a vivid, at times even freakishly messy, personality.
Anderson shepherded his new film into theaters without letting it be dumbed down, proving that he can protect his work from rank Hollywood commercialism.
Also, the conglomerates are accused of having dumbed down books, publishing titles that may be more easily adapted by their Hollywood subsidiaries.
A few months ago, James Traub, assessing the impact of Gardner's theory in the New Republic , charged that the multiple-intelligence movement has dumbed down the curriculum in many schools.