Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BABBIT is a smart, thoughtful, articulate politician. Even so, during his speech entitled, "The End of Idealism," I couldn't get the picture out of my head of Jimmy Stewart as the Mr. Smith who went to Washington. The particular comparison with Stewart I would make was more like the famed actor's stump speech after the sequel, Mr. Smith Goes to the White House, which didn't do well at the box office. (As it turns out, unfortunately for this prissy good-government scenario, Babbit is now a Capitol Hill lobbyist for a group of healthy savings and loans...
Speaking of the CBA, send the Los Angeles Clippers there until they learn how to play smart basketball...
...arrival on Broadway with this pronouncement: "I doubt we'll see a better play this season." The other New York papers, as is the custom, chose to let their off- Broadway reviews stand. An "enlightening portrait of her generation," declared the Times, while Newsday poured on the laudatory adjectives: "smart, compassionate, witty, courageous." There were some sharp dissents. TIME's theater critic, William A. Henry III, complained that "Wasserstein has written mostly whiny and self-congratulatory cliches...
...just have some really smart guys here," said Cliff H. Taubes, math professor and faculty coordinator of the Harvard team. "I don't imagine that we could flatter ourselves and say we taught them what they know. It's all to their credit...
Bill Waterson's strip about a hyperactive kid and his overactive imagination is a neo-comic strip. It has all the conventional characters--suburban parents, a smart-aleck kid, a female foil and a school bully. It's wrapped in a clean, cute art style. And it's funny...