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Word: cleverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe him. Celebrities whine and whine, but what happens once they start missing the roaring fans, having to drive their own cars, answer their own phone calls, and--gasp!--do their own laundry? They start stalking the papparazzi. This time I'll leave it to the eloquent and clever Sharon Stone, who always gets things right: "I got to be tall and blond and a movie star--that's a lot to get in life...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...best individual performances belonged to junior Darren Dinneen and sophomore Chris Clever, who both traveled to Buffalo for the NCAA Championships last week. Last year, according to co-captain Joe Ciollo, no Harvard men went to nationals...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dinneen, Clever, Ciollo Pace M. Track | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...Clever broke his own school record in the javelin at Heps, where he threw 228'6 to win. The second-closest thrower in school history is over 15 feet behind. He has been resting his shoulder injury and has not thrown all-out for much of the season, but he will be able to put forth his best effort at NCAAs...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dinneen, Clever, Ciollo Pace M. Track | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...commune's entrance to the pigs' grisly show trials. You'll have a hard time setting a rattrap after seeing a scapegoated (scape-ratted?) rodent swinging from a gallows. The film retains both the Russian Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless warnings against slippery language and manipulation; in a clever if heavy-handed addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Whitewashing the Farm | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Whether or not students are happy with their course loads, the work must get done. If you're clever enough to get into Harvard, you must be creative enough to find ways to get around the reading...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Neverending Story: Tales from the Harvard Oeuvre | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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