Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jazz baby or a Jezebel, in All About Eve and Now, Voyager, she created the movies' first and finest thoroughly modern woman: smart, independent, combative, ever alluring...
...line? Like it or not, there is no simple way to guarantee a life free of heart disease. Someone may swear off French fries for decades and still be struck down. Someone else may eat eggs every day and live to be 100. But in the game of life, smart players look at the odds. And most health professionals remain convinced that a sensible diet, with only moderate amounts of saturated fats and cholesterol, raises the odds of avoiding a heart attack...
...While elsewhere in China, government booklets like The True Story of Tiananmen Square are prominently displayed alongside issues of Vogue, Elle and Glamour, you have to hunt for the lies at Wangfujing, Beijing's largest bookstore. The section labeled "Ideology and Political Education" actually displays books titled Modern Woman, Smart Woman, Handbook on Love and Life and dozens of how- to monographs like Eighty-Eight Points on Developing Public Relations. In other cities the regime appears successful at banishing books and periodicals dealing with "pornography, bourgeois liberalism and feudal superstition." Here one can buy steamy romances, political biographies of discredited...
...guess the main reason I was surprised that the demonstrators rubbed the leaders' noses in it," says a professor of Chinese literature in Guangzhou, "is that their actions were so uncharacteristic of the way in which most smart Chinese operate. The emperors and their policies change rapidly in China. As the old proverb says, 'In the morning, welcomed as the guest of a high official; in the evening, held as a prisoner under the steps.' To survive in China, you must keep your head down and be ready to change your allegiances and enthusiasms quickly -- or at least appear...
Audience response to Frank's speech was generally positive. "I think what he was doing, speaking to constituents, has a very positive effect--politically, it's the smart thing to do," said Alexander Vasilyonok, a Cambridge resident who heard Frank's speech...