Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces who are convinced he is an enemy agent are full of injured innocence and inventive ripostes. For about two-thirds of its distance, as it places an ordinary kid in an extraordinary situation, WarGames flirts with an E.T.-like charm. One imagines young David heading toward a small, smart, deadly encounter with gum-snapping Dabney Coleman, who plays, with his usual admirable restraint, a true believer in the Pentagon's, and WOPR's, infallibility...
...took was a request for her to stretch those famous legs and hit the boards in a dance number-calling up talents that kept her in tooth polish long before the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And so, hat cocked and collar up, Moore will be joining a smart blue chorus line of New York's Finest later this month for a stage show to benefit Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute. A veteran principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, D'Amboise, 48, has long been on an inner-city crusade to get children...
...threat to managements is likely to come mainly from people who already hold substantial blocks of stock. Says Joe Parella, a general partner at New York's First Boston Corp.: "Proxy battles are a cheap way to take over a company. All you do is hire a smart lawyer and run ads." That can often cost anywhere from $1 million to $10 million. Gaining outright control of large firms could run into the billions...
...denizens of such films: the clique of giggly, somewhat unattractive girls, the class slut who "likes it while [she's] doin' it" but feels shitty afterwards, the overprotective parents--"you need protein, you need fiber..."--the refined lady drama teacher and her prize student, Jill Rosen, the school's smart, pretty girl who heads the drama club and dreams of stardom, and who has always made everyone else jealous...
...expelled from St. Catherine's picks up the next fall when Jill, feeling out of it at Sarah Lawrence, visits him in Miami. Yes, she loses her virginity and suddenly sees the Sheik--who gets his name from the condoms, he proudly informs her--as the not terribly smart, two-bit hustler that he is. Etcetera...