Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, thick-chested, cinnamon-gum-chomping cinematic subversive, dedicated to the perpetration of mindlessness over matter. His films are collages of chaos seemingly cut out by some giant pair of deranged scissors, pitiless assemblages of sight gags, smart cracks and terrible puns. A hard-riding posse of cowhands is held up by a single-file tollbooth in the middle of the Great Western Desert. A sweet, about-to-be-married young thing brushes her hair in the moonlight and bellows out The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mel Brooks is not a subtle...
...elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies. Vail is sometimes called the "Dallas Alps," a reference to the Texas oilmen who have taken a liking to the place and helped push land values to more than $200,000 an acre. The resort is a world away from Grand Rapids and the square, salt...
What makes Sy Hersh gallop? He explains it in his expansive way: "I'm smart and I work hard." Hersh was brought up in a middle-class Jewish family in Chicago (his father ran a dry-cleaning shop). "I had a happy enough childhood," he told one interviewer, "lived for baseball, had no idea what I wanted to be." Which may explain why Hersh, a B student at the University of Chicago, dropped out of law school after a year and drifted into journalism in 1959. He ended up with the Associated Press but abruptly quit when...
...honor student; she received straight A's in the advanced college-prep course. Then she entered the University of Massachusetts and flunked out in her first year. "I realized I couldn't read, write, or even speak English well," she says. "I couldn't believe how smart the other kids were." McDonough, 21, now works as a secretary...
...high Sierra for Karefa-Smart...