Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most endearing feature of Jeffreys' music is his 'little boy lost' persona; a coy optimism pervades his slower, reflective tumes, and the tight, driving street-smart playing of the Rumour emboldens the unpretentious "I May Not Be Your Kind" and "Bound to Get Ahead Someday...
Some people were smart enough yesterday to get away from the Cambridge puddles. The Harvard women's volleyball team, for instance, travelled across the state to Williamstown, where they lost to their host, Williams, but beat Yale in a tough three-game match...
...lucky (and smart) because in Bauhaus he has found a subject that badly needs debunking. Just because Wolfe didn't like modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
Often unnoticed are the ripple effects that come when businesses go under: the failure of the small sawmill that shakes the economy of a rural community; the entrepreneur who amasses only red ink in return for risking his capital and decides to play it smart next time and stick his cash in a high-yielding money-market fund; the worthy new enterprise that cannot afford to borrow and expand and therefore loses market share and stagnates, perhaps eventually being driven out of business altogether by some tough and well-heeled foreign competitor from, say, Japan. Says Purdue University Economist William...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT, the broadest wit of the twentieth century, returns to abuse and tickle the audience of Howard Teichmann's elegant one man show, Smart Aleck. Peter Boyden brings a lighthearted grace to the stage as the New York Times critic and founder of the Algonquin Round table. He evokes the theater and manners of the twenties and thirties with anecdotes and witticisms and carries off Woollcott's bitchy sexlessness with impeccable style. Introducing himself as "Alexander Woollcott, an American Original," Boyden launches into an amusing biography spiced with puns and literary anecdotes...