Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substantial. "Silence is each day giving way to courage," Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said recently, "and shame to strength." Evident all around is a busy sense of awakening. Children are learning about the perils of alcohol in school through slogans like "Get Smart, Don't Start -- Just Say No." The accumulated scientific findings of the past decade are having a major impact on the public. Recently a Gallup poll found that a great majority of American adults are convinced that alcoholism is indeed an illness rather than a sign of moral backsliding. In that, they have...
Medical and scientific promise, however, should not eclipse the importance of public policy efforts to curb heavy drinking among adults -- and stop it altogether among youngsters and adolescents. Education is one approach. The Government's "Be Smart" campaign, aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, has had some success. Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been a primary factor in the fight that has raised drinking ages from 18 to 21 in 34 states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels...
...Director Martin Ritt's familiar craftsmanship. You can enjoy the strong performance by Richard Dreyfuss (as Claudia's public and private defender). You may even smile at Streisand's straining to create another movie metaphor for her own fettered Hollywood eminence. Claudia, like Yentl before her, is a smart, sexy woman whose place of respect the boys in power want to deny. Streisand, who has both power and respect, might be advised to use that leverage on a project less conventional and complacent than this very mixed Nuts...
...great quarterback," Dulsky said. "He's a smart quarterback, too, which makes it hard to catch...
...Smart ones understand," says the venerable Clark Clifford, 80, who has seen as much of the power game as anyone. Harry Truman, for whom Clifford worked in the White House, at first fought the forces around him; he severely embarrassed himself and the country before he understood he wasn't the only authority on the avenue. Clifford thinks that insofar as Reagan is concerned, it is too late. "President Reagan has become almost irrelevant. Powerful forces are moving ahead without him. In the economic field, he will be unable to recover. Our main goal now is to try to prevent...