Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tobacco Wars are far from over. Following the defeat of a critical anti-tobacco bill last week, President Clinton directed the Department of Health and Human Services to begin documenting which brands of cigarettes kids smoke. "It's a clever move," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This helps Clinton back up his claim that he's really interested only in keeping kids from smoking and not in punishing the tobacco companies...
...moon-princess luster, she is the heir to Winona Ryder. As an icon of indie film, she's a teen Parker Posey. But don't waste comparisons on Christina Ricci. At 18, she is her own, clever young actress grown up onscreen from the gothic child playing with dead things in Casper and The Addams Family to the buxom blond in The Opposite of Sex. "I love her access to her dark places," says Sex auteur Don Roos. "There's a very mature, adult mind behind that childlike face...
...Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, then went weekly in 1990. A Honeymooners with kids, the series features a man in a deadening blue-collar job (Homer, the nuclear-plant safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond her years with the merest suck on her pacifier...
...narrative path of your choosing: stick with Cyberswine, or peel off and follow the action from the perspective of one of his pals. Don't dig the pig's vibes? Click on an icon in the corner of the screen, and tweak his character to make him more clever, anxious, aggressive or caring. You can also change the camera angle. Or not--one of the options in a Multipath Movie is to just say no to interactivity: you can sit back and watch...
...IC4As, two men secured sixth-place finishes in their events. Muoio concluded his season with a strong showing in the 3000-meter steeplechase, breaking the nine-minute mark with an impressive time of 8:59.68. Clever continued to fare well in the field events, placing sixth in the javelin...