Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing to the press. Promptly headlined was the charge, from which all sorts of innuendoes were supposed to be drawn, that when Strauss was on a visit to Los Angeles in June 1960, Lockheed Aircraft arranged an "intimate" dinner for him and Actress Jayne Mansfield. From Lockheed came the smart rejoinder that the company had indeed entertained Strauss at an "intimate" dinner -for 14 U.S. and German officials. Jayne Mansfield, quite believably, said she had "never heard of Strauss," adding that in June 1960 she was avoiding public appearances, being seven months pregnant with her second child...
With all the glitter and glamour, it might have been the premiere of a new Fellini film. Row after row of limousines pulled up, cameras clicked on all sides, and the chic, smartly dressed guests sipped Scotch and martinis as they ogled a pop art exhibition that included plastic turkeys, fish, steaks and a display of Andy Warhol's stacked Brillo Boxes. There were roughly 500 Ibs. of real food per person-and no wonder. The bash that brought out Rome's smart set last week was the opening of Italy's largest supermarket, a two-story...
...best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany is a village that doesn't quite fit. Gourin (pop. 3,000) is fat, smart and happy...
Naturally, Sparky did not go to college: "It was obvious I wasn't smart enough." He was drafted into the army in 1943 and trained as a machine gunner, but he fluffed his one chance to use his weapon. While riding a half-track in the last days of the war, he spotted a couple of German soldiers, wheeled his gun into position and pulled the trigger. "It just went click." He had forgotten to load...
...problem, Sands holds, is to unscramble the convict's twisted values of what is smart and what is dumb. "I've been a con, as smart and tough as they come," he tells the prisoners, "but I'm not a wise guy any more. All the wise guys I know are in here-the smartest ones of all didn't even come to the show, they're in the hole. They call guys like me square Johns, dummies. Yeah. All us square Johns are on the outside...