Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these are signals sent out by Steve Martin, who is too smart and funny to be fit for a movie idol's straitjacket. He began, in the early 1970s, as a stand-up comic with an unusual persona: a guy determined against all odds -- lack of charm or talent, for example -- to be the life of the party. In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds. Would he restrict himself to updating Jerry Lewis when he could be Cary Grant? Not at all. For with Pennies from Heaven Martin essayed nostalgic...
...they succeed while other pioneers failed? Howard, a former editor of the Wrights' papers at the Library of Congress, suggests a kind of sibling synergy. Individually, the brothers were smart and handy. Together, their complementary skills and temperaments set off a brilliant chain reaction. The Wrights were also practical tradesmen who could finance their flying experiments through the cycle company. The cost of building and launching the 1903 Flyer was, according to Orville, less than $1,000, while the U.S. Government spent $50,000 to have Samuel Langley construct a similar aircraft that fell into the Potomac River seconds after...
Following the intricate expansiveness of her much praised novel Machine Dreams, the gifted Phillips, 35, has here assembled a collection of loose ends: first-person monologues revolving around barefoot girls, post-hippie gypsies and other street-smart naifs. One story is a kelped and matted address delivered by a castaway young woman to the baby inside her; another, the erotically charged rural reminiscence of an old lady; a third, the juiced-up riff of a 20-year-old rock 'n' roller, strutting his stuff with the swagger of the vulnerable...
...Kennedy School went through a period oftraining smart, bright analysts. Although that isan important function of the institution, wemissed some opportunities to worry about theproblems of the disenfranchised, which is verymuch a role for us," he said, adding that in thepast the Kennedy School has concentrated more onthe academic rather than the professional aspectof social service...
...Stafford felt as if the character he was tracking were more fictional than real. Stafford, who works for the U.S. Marshals Service, spent 3 1/2 years looking for Kesselman in connection with British charges of cocaine trafficking and money laundering. "He was a charmer," says Stafford. "He was mobile, smart, bounced around to all these different spots, and you couldn't get a handle...