Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...pretty loose about grades but they are valuable for your own self-esteem. If someone gives you a B, he's saying you're just not as smart as the next guy who gets an A. It hurts. It's not particular to Harvard. It's the way the grade system works...
...movie's ambience is stilted and uneasy, as if to match the dialogue. Some smart Chandler lines have been retained, but Richards and Goodman have added some others ("It's Snow White." "With or without the dwarfs?"), presumably of their own invention. Up against the real thing, these emendations stand out, as Chandler once wrote, "like a tarantula on a slice of angel food...
...about growing up black in Chicago in 1964-is a separate but equal American Graffiti. Such impressions should be corrected immediately. It requires a certain defensiveness, or an anxious if inadvertent condescension, to maintain that Cooley High, crude of mind and clumsy of execution, can even compete with the smart high spirits of American Graffiti...
Sometimes in groups, more often alone, they swagger through Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu and other smart-set residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...