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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers. The Telegram is aimed at the commuter from the well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily at city dwellers. The Sunday Tribune, with its emphasis on arts and fashions, appeals to the city's smart set, and may have a difficult time accommodating the earthier features of the Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Slow-Motion Merger in New York | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...doing difficult creative work," he explains, "I keep at it for only a quarter of an hour or so at a time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Man on the Mountain | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking to itself, giggling at its own jokes. Even the few truly humorous shows-Get Smart!, The Dick Van Dyke Show-cannot fulfill the demand to be funny and original week after week. "It's not surprising," says S. J. Perelman, "that people who do weekly comedy shows on television are reduced to drivel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Encroaching Desert. Smart shops in Tripoli and Benghazi-the twin capitals-display Dior dresses, footwear from Italy and tape recorders from Japan. Auto agencies do a brisk business, and visitors are warned to watch both ways for "first-generation drivers" -registrations have risen from 12,000 to 55,000 in five years-as well as for gaping chuckholes in the streets, beneath which Tripoli is installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Peanuts to Prosperity | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...pros make fools of themselves in the $100,000 Bing Crosby championship. Most of the spectators cluster around the 17th and 18th holes, where for 752 yds. there is nothing on the left but surf, sand, rocks and Hawaii-a 2,410-mile wood shot away. The smart ones bring gunny sacks and hang out in a cove, where balls hit into the sea are washed up by the tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: GOLF: Bogeys at the Beach | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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