Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Arthur Fergusson placed second in the long jump but suffered a high hamstring pull and was unable to do the triple jump and 110-meter high hurdles. Sophomore Chris Clever, who has already qualified for the NCAA championships in the javelin, sat out with an arm injury. Freshman Kobie Fuller, a top sprinter, also was hurt...
...deter the rape of Kosovo and even appeared to be speeding it. Publicly, NATO insisted that the blame for the refugee flight lay solely with Milosevic, not Western bombs. But privately, officials offered a line that made more sense alongside the awful images. Military planners lamented that bad weather, clever Serb tactics, White House worries about collateral damage--and a reluctance to risk pilots' lives--kept them from hitting at Milosevic as hard as they wished. And diplomats complained that the limp military effort wasn't bringing the Serbs to heel fast enough. "You want to know the truth?" asked...
Rowling believes Harry has become a crossover hit because she never wrote with a "target audience" in mind. The books certainly work on several levels. They are filled not only with characters familiar to most kids but also with clever jokes about garden gnomes and wizard chess--played with living pieces ("They kept shouting different bits of advice at him, which was confusing: 'Don't send me there, can't you see his knight? Send him, we can afford to lose him'"). As Rowling puts it, "If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed...
...contempo-realism that its shortcomings as drama might be overlooked. Marber's tactic of eliding large chunks of time--people meet; in the next scene they've been living together for months--stresses the impersonal power of sex but robs the characters of human dimension. The cybersex scene is clever but seems entirely detachable from the rest of the play. Like a skilled hooker, Closer is satisfying mainly in the moment; as a lasting experience, it leaves something to be desired...
...Clever lads that they are, they offer us a world in which most of the population consists of dronelike clones created and managed, without their knowing it, by superintelligent humanoid machines (men in black, of course). Even more cleverly, they posit, in Reeves' character, a modern Everyman--a computer hacker, naturally--who may be the Messiah whom the remnants of authentic humanity have long awaited. These resisters, called Zionists, live near the earth's core and are represented up top by the very brainy Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and a small band of rebel fighters, living by their wits and their...