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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pretty smart. But these hijackers are not so smart. One of the companies that lost a couple of trucks is believed to be controlled by the Mob. If true, the guys had better hope the cops find them before the Mafia does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Big Steal | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...short, there is an old-fashioned man beneath the smart patter of Simon's dialogue. Moore has given his work a flat, old-fashioned production. And although Mason and Caan are agreeable people, they (and Moore) seem not quite up to the large emotions the film's dark second half requires them to express. Everything is a little too gingerly. In the end, the film must be judged as muted, likable, not all it might have been, but a nice-and terribly decent-try. -Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Decent Try | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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