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Many of his best films, particularly in the 1930s, pitted small-town rubes against city sophisticates.
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It seems too good to be true, but the panel of judges at the Intel science fair are not rubes.
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It is, however, highly profitable, and as long as rubes will buy, the snake oil salesman is always happy to oblige.
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These are highly motivated, very sophisticated people, not a bunch of rubes.
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The closest comparison may be Sacha Baron Cohen's knife-edge satirical rubes.
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So how is it that the rubes, with their grease-stained hands, reeking of the smell of manure or chemical fertilizers, have outperformed the darlings of the information age?
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To outsiders, the costs of these triumphal programs are often not visible, at least not until years or decades later when the rubes have moved on to new man crushes.
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With Singapore ardently wooing overseas professionals, how could Hong Kong hope to compete if it had first to deal with legion upon legion of poorly educated rubes from the mainland?
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The jurors didn't want Alabamans to look like rubes.
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Besides, you gotta get the rubes in the tent, and at this stage the rubes are the early adopters (which may be redundant, but never mind) and early adopters want to see stuff sizzle.
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"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" doesn't have much of a plot: NBC wants Max Prince (Philip Nolen) to dumb down his program in order to satisfy the small-town rubes, and he responds by declaring war on the network.
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S. kept the rubes coming.
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