Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sassy has no such identity crisis. Pert, unnervingly frank and filled with clever asides from "Jane," "Catherine," "Karen," "Christina" and the rest of the staff, it has singlehandedly pioneered a new genre: pajama-party journalism. "The big question we ask is what would a 16-year-old want to learn that no one else would tell her," says Editor Jane Pratt, 25. After being presented with an idea, Pratt hashes it out with her equally young staff, and then, it often seems, simply publishes the text of the discussion. "It was a typical Wednesday morning meeting," begins a feature...
Prascak attempts to be clever, clever, But being clever just once would probably have been better...
...intrusions came to an abrupt halt, but the mystery persists. Was Speer % simply a clever hacker? Or was he a would-be mercenary or even an East bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address...
Especially strong are the performances of Laurence Thomsen and Maria Catherine Troy, who play the befuddled Dr. and Mrs. Zubrisky, leading citizens in the small Russian town in which the play is set. Thomsen is a clever actor, deftly mixing deadpan and ham. Similarly, the utterly natural theatrical poise with which Troy plays her part is admirable...
...just liked the sense of humor here. I think that was the deciding factor, to tell you the truth," Ogilvie says. "I went to see a speech that was given to pre-frosh by Dean Moses and a few other speakers, and it was just really clever. I enjoyed the humor so much, and the only type of humor that I could have compared it to at that time was British humor. I enjoyed that as a kid so much and never got to see any of it in West Virginia...