Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young marrieds of the 1940s could not go wrong with Russel Wright, then easily the country's best-known designer. His furniture and tableware were smart, modern, practical and informal. Best of all, they were cheap. In 1940, a 20-piece "starter set" of Wright's American Modern pottery dinner dishes cost about $6. The announcement that year of a new shipment at Gimbels' New York store caused block-long lines and a near riot. The design had never been as popular in America...
...nevertheless unstoppable freaks; if nothing else, they'll bilk you for the price of dinner. Women who are beautiful and know how to use it--like the shopgirls in Robert's lunch date--are whores. You can see it just by looking around you. And if a smart man like Frederick Barthelme, who knows so well how to express himself, sees it too--well, then, it must be so. How inexorably plausible. How damnably unfair...
Musically, however, Bowie always seems to know what time it is; no need for verification. His new material is unabashedly commercial, melodically alliterative and lyrically smart at the same time. Bowie made some of the most adventurous rock of the past decade. When it did not work, it sounded trendy or tuned out. But when it did hit, which was most of the time, it laid down rules and set new marks for others to follow. Bowie kept the cutting edge keen. There are few punks or New Wavers or art rockers or New Dancers dancing to New Music...
...like any other smart young American dreamer, Murphy is marketing his broad appeal in four major media: TV, records, concerts and movies. Consider this jet-blast ride to stardom...
...switch roles, and then get even with the two greedy geezers who did them dirt. It is the summer's lone comedy hit, grossing $30 million in its first three weeks of release. "Eddie is definitely a movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts him in the movies' major leagues next to Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood-"Now those guys are movie stars!" says Eddie...