Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chinatown as a whole shares something of Dunaway's problem. Get too close to it and the careful illusion breaks down. Polanski and Towne turned out a smart and elegant recreation. But the script also raises moral questions and political implications that are never plumbed at greater than paper-cup depth...
What a wonderful title - raffish, with a street-smart tone, and with the promise, too, of a gaudy carnival running full tilt dusk to dawn. Uptown Saturday Night could have been, should have been, a neon mosaic of high spirits and lowlife...
ACORN is not a group of amateurs. Among people acquainted with the field, it is regarded as perhaps the best community organizing group in the country. ACORN played it smart--it sent a lobbyist, William L. Kitchen, to Cambridge for a few weeks to put on the pressure...
...Kissinger returned to Moscow with Nixon for the summit. Viet Nam dominated one long, frosty session. At one point, Premier Aleksei Kosygin turned to Nixon and said: "You have Henry Kissinger. He's a smart man. Why don't you get him to find the right solution for the war?" As the meeting dragged on, Nixon turned to Kissinger and whispered: "God, this cannot go on like this...
...search of the woman worthy of his heroic self-sacrifice, Tarnopol throws aside such winners, such female Tarnopols, as Dina Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist...