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Word: cleverness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...money on this stuff? Humor is clearly a big draw: a study last year by Lightspeed Venture Partners found that virtual ninjabread cookies are given twice as often as virtual chocolate. There's even a create-your-own-gift application, which has more than 300,000 users. Make yours clever enough, and you could horn in on the estimated $42 million in Facebook gift sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying for Virtual Gifts | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...looping tracks, and each vehicle carrying dishes with different prices, I counted at least 35 food options to hot pot, including five types of mushrooms (one, a cutely shaped species I’d never seen in America before). The food delivery method created an amusing, interactive buffet, a clever combination of eating and entertainment. I had never seen anything like...

Author: By Helen X. Yang | Title: Play with Your Food | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...Little else about his finances was as clever. Blessed with the regular rewards from the Beatles' music and his own, Jackson started to spend. He paid $17 million in 1988 for the 2,800-acre (roughly 1,000 hectares) ranch in California that would become Neverland. Maintaining the theme park - complete with zoo, movie theater and fairground - swallowed up about $5 million annually. As Jackson gradually retreated from work, the additional millions eaten up by plane charters, antiques, lavish gifts and legal disputes - a child-molestation case in the early 1990s cost Jackson around $20 million to settle - left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened to Michael Jackson's Millions? | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...meeting wasn't acrimonious, and he believed the door was open should he ever want to return. Jobs did not beg him to stay, and they worked out a plan for an orderly transition. Rubinstein went south and built his house, inventing a clever firefighting system that pumps water from the swimming pool (the closest fire department is 35 minutes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pre: Palm's Plot to Take on the iPhone | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...more successful captions address everything that's going on. I'll depart from Patrick House here. He said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that's clever but not really funny. But there are others I've seen - not mine, I hasten to add - that really are terrific and funny. I wish I could say mine were really funny, but I think they fall more into the clever category. You know: "That works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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