Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traffic in Cairo streets is regularly blocked by $40,000 Mercedes while their owners indulge Gucci tastes in smart boutiques. Foreign banks and trading companies compete for expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing...
...this is a way of saying that Absence of Malice is not what it seems to be either. Over many of its scenes there hangs the jaunty romantic air, half cynical, half idealistic, of an old-fashioned genre film about newspapering-lots of smart cracks, some understated soul searching, plenty of entertaining characters. It is also extremely well acted at every level (one especially wants to single out Bob Balaban as the Government's chief aggressor and Wilford Brimley as its belated voice of conscience), and directed by Sidney Pollack with a sort of crisp but unassuming professionalism that...
EUREKA. Howabouta traditional values woman (sans hang-ups) in tune with the '80s. You'll find me warm, gentle, sensuous, capable. . . andgreatfun. I'm either beautiful or great looking (depending upon your taste), 41, 5 ft. 8 in., slim, blonde/blue, classy, smart, spiritually healthy and intellectually curious ... I'm a high achiever professionally and will refuse to compete with you . . . well-read . . . well-traveled...
...personifying the gangster as a tragically overreaching hero (The Public Enemy); the next he was to be found quickstepping on his jaunty dancer's pins along the sunny side, tapping out a dandy Yankee Doodle up tune. But it made no difference where he traded slick jabs and smart-mouthed gibes, for he always made it clear that though he could be touched, he could not be trifled with or, at his core, changed...
Bedford Field was fenceless. The diamond was part of the practice fields for football and soccer, and this meant that if a person was to hit a home run, he had to really knock it so that the outfielders couldn't chase it down. A smart outfield would make this doubly difficult by backing way out into the grass, for a dangerous hitter, sometimes so far that you couldn't even hear their between-pitch chatter...