Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know these other guys seem to forget where they come from. They form a kind of political royalty. They think they never can get licked. All the wise guys and all the smart money lined up with Muskie. Now McGovern, he's gone around on a pretty short bankroll. If he can put this thing together, who will he owe? Who'd have ever figured McGovern? He's set them all on their...
...fact, fans had looked forward to the final series as little more than an anticlimax. The real drama figured to come in the inevitable showdown between the red-hot Lakers and the defending Champion Milwaukee Bucks for the Western Division title. The winner of that clash, so the smart money said, would then face some hopelessly outclassed team from the Eastern Division...
With the slaying of two other lesser mobsters in New York last week, full gang warfare seemed imminent. The new image of Mafiosi as softspoken, smart-dressing businessmen, who shun such crudities as murder and torture as oldfashioned, seemed to be fading. Perhaps the Mob was taking those gory movie scripts about itself too seriously. At any rate, it was exposing the cruelty and ruthlessness of racketeering. Offscreen, murder is brutally final. Indeed, Gallo did not like parts of The Godfather. He told a friend that he thought the death scenes seemed "too flashy...
...started off in the Depression in Bowling Green, Ky., divorced and broke with two kids to feed. It might have been what they used to call the old story-a life of sin and degradation. But Pauline Tabor was smart enough to open up a house of her own. "Pauline's" became a Kentucky institution -politicians went to pleasure themselves there; fraternity boys would beg a pair of panties to take back as campus trophies. More than three decades later, Pauline, married to a successful bookie, retired to a farm to raise organic crops and write her memoirs...
...about time, because the soaps suggest that the main concern of any smart woman is now, as it was for Helen Trent 35 years ago to find a male chauvinist worthy of her and bear his children, the more the better. A woman is allowed to work, but a career is clearly an unsatisfactory alternative to marriage, unhappy or not. An aggressive woman district attorney, beset by a number of personal conflicts, cracked under the strain of a cross-examination she was conducting on a recent episode of CBS's The Secret Storm. "What's she going...