Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Leicester, she stepped out of her hotel precisely on schedule at 9 a.m. Dressed in a smart, gold-trimmed dark blue suit, her blond hair perfectly in place, she made her way to Grahame Gardner Ltd., a small local clothing firm. After greeting the proprietors, she climbed the stairs to a second-floor workshop and proceeded to win the seamstresses' hearts-if not their votes-by sitting at one of their machines and sewing away for a minute or two. Television cameras filmed the event for the evening news. By the time Thatcher left 45 minutes later...
Like so many ABC miniseries, from the high-toned Roots right down to the pulpy Pearl, Ike is the state of the art in slick TV production. A lot of smart choices have been made, the brightest of all being the casting of Robert Duvall and Lee Remick as the leads. Duvall may not look much like Ike-the top of head notwithstanding-but he cuts a forceful figure. His Eisenhower is unfailingly decent, corny, shrewd: a first-rate general who would later grow into a caretaker President. Remick does not resemble Summersby too much either, but who cares...
Romance plays five times better than it sounds, thanks to a genuinely funny script, gorgeous locations, fine acting and direction that never wallows in sentiment. As Hill demonstrated in his similar and wonderful The World of Henry Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them. Lane, a pretty refugee from Broadway's Runaways, is a completely unmannered actress who cuts to the guts of every scene; she is a major find. Though Bernard has too many punch lines and must speak in a second language, he rises to Lane's level...
...Ferrante put the attack together, set up the plays and kept us moving," St. Louis said. "She played smart, heads-up lacrosse, all weekend," St. Louis added...
...have shown large and expensive equipment such as aircraft carriers, fighter aircraft, and tanks to be increasingly vulnerable to highly accurate, deadly, and cost-effective precision-guided munitions. Yet the defense budget still shows a greater commitment to these weapons: for example, although Assistant Defense Secretary William Perry portrays "smart" weapons as the most important revolution in military hardware since radar, the budget includes a request for a fourteenth, multi-billion-dollar aircraft carrier...