Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says the baby. "No," mommy tells him, "goo-goo is how babies go. Mommies go cuckoo." This time the kid gets it right: "Mommy koo-koo." It is his first sentence, and mommy is charmed. "You smart thing," she says, "have a zwieback...
Tellingly funny, poignant and smart, Blume in Love confirms Mazursky as an American film maker from whom one can consistently expect work of substance and resonance...
...another downpour descending, the action was halted after 133 of the scheduled 200 laps. Gordon Johncock, whose Eagle-Offenhauser was one of only eleven cars still running, was declared the winner and given a check for $236,022. The traditional victory banquet was canceled - one of the few smart moves of the entire event...
...case history for Women's Lib (Anatomy is not Destiny, etc.). In life, Doris Lessing notes, Kate's future would be a slow, desperate struggle against the signs of decay-"tinting her hair, keeping her weight down, following the fashions carefully so that she would be smart but not mutton dressed as lamb...
...MEAN to imply that there is nothing to what Dr. Levi-Strauss said. Dr. Herrnstein, the genetics specialist, told me that anyone with the chromosomes of both the great trouser manufacturing family and the famous Viennese composer was sure to be a smart guy. However, I tend to side more with Dr. Freud and see that Dr. Levi-Strauss's having the first name "Claude" forced him to compensate creatively for what he lacked as a person. In fact, I think some of the flaws in Dr. Levi-Strauss's thinking personally and structuralism generally stem from an unconscious overcompensation...