Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoting American cigarettes in Third World countries are similarly unregulated, further clouding the possibility of an informed choice. Ads for U.S. cigarettes in the Third World project the same messages which used to mark American ads, saying in effect. "You're smart if you smoke" or "Smoking is good for your sex life," the World Health Organization magazines has reported. All of the important people, the ads imply, have ridden to a position authority on a magic carpet of smoke...
...from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket. It is also tough, smart and marvelously unpredictable...
...opening scene of Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit Cloud Nine), is the strangest of dinner parties; the hostess is alive, but all the guests are dead. Marlene (Gwen Taylor) is a smart, hard-nosed career woman who is celebrating her promotion to managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency at a London restaurant called La Prima Donna. She has invited a few prima donnas, or "top girls," of past centuries to celebrate with...
...girl's plight triggers a screechy, preachy political cat fight between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...
...computer crunch hits hardest during the two weeks of Reading Period. "If you were smart, you could have gotten your project done before Christmas, but it doesn't always work that way," said Hunt...