Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walker was named president in 1967 despite-not because of-the fact that he was the ex-chiefs son. The company frowns on nepotism, but Walker had proved himself a personable and smart executive who had a talent for enforcing tight financial controls. Now 50, he joined the company in 1947 after attending both Harvard and Columbia's School of Business. Walker, who is in his office by 7:30 a.m. and takes home only a half-hour's work, likes to operate his company informally; he even answers his own telephone. Twice a year he huddles with...
...personal security force for both shows. Our purpose is to handle security problems quickly, to avoid reaching the crisis point where the police are required. For the Stones, the emphasis is mind over matter; we may not be big, but we're smart...
...Porter, veteran of fatherly roles in TV sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born exhibitionist and a rockribbed physical facade. But Peter Boyle steals the show as Marvin Lucas, McKay's mysterious New York-based campaign manager. Lucas is tough, and smart, and flexible, a Madison Avenue superman; but in his own oily way we feel he cares more seriously than anyone else in the drama about the election's outcome--and he alone almost raises the level of the picture to tragicomedy...
...Rolling Stones are one of his incarnations. Unlike the Beatles-the very prototype of nice English working-class lads accepted everywhere, winning M.B.E.s from the Queen-the Stones from the start based their appeal partly on their reputation as delinquents. They were always too shaggy, too street smart; instead of creating the illusion of working within English social conventions, as the Beatles did, they simply ignored the rules. Long before Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange into a film, the Stones were acting out the fantasy of being Alex and his droogs. When, around 1965, England's subculture of Purple...
...from the subjects taught, however, but simply from the encounter with the other campers. Says Director Joseph M. Hutchison Jr., a professor at West Virginia University: "For the first time, many of the boys meet intellectual equals of their own age. Some even confess they're not as smart as they thought they were...