Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Berlin's smart antiCommunists, meanwhile, thought up a way to show how little the rigged election represented the real sentiments of East Germans. The West Berliners invited East Berliners to protest against the election by mailing to a West Berlin headquarters the stubs of their September ration cards. At week's end more than 400,000 stubs had poured in, out of a possible 700,000 or so votes in East Berlin...
...Early this month another former concentration-camp victim gave Yvonne a tip. The name Yvonne gave to the police was that of one of France's best amateur horsewomen, the Comtesse Fides.de Marliave. Comte Bernard had known the Comtesse de Marliave casually before the war at the very smart riding club, Cercle de l'Etrier...
...York City Opera's smart Director Laszlo Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...steamed happily at 90 m.p.h. or better across open fields and along express boulevards. Last week the cops put into service four souped-up 1950 Fords decked out in the standard black & white police paint job, but fitted with souped-up 110-h.p. hot-rod engines. "It gives these smart alecks a shock when we pull alongside and tell them to pull over," crowed one cop after a successful chase. "They wonder where the hell we came from...
Scripted and directed by Joseph L. (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, All About Eve is probably Hollywood's closest original approach to the bite, sheen and wisdom of high comedy. It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue. Sometimes at too earnest length, but mostly with wit and always with insight, it jabs at the quirks and follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over...