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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no easy task, given the hurly-burly of a crowded plot. The pair pick up the trail of a drug-smuggling ring, and the film never quite persuades us that a smart group like this one would turn on the Murtaugh clan in order to scare off Dad. But it is hard to focus on such fine points, given the dark intensity with which Director Richard Donner stages the nonstop action of the film's final 30 minutes. Among movie bone crackers, he is the one who seems to have an advanced degree in chiropractic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bone Crack LETHAL WEAPON | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...next time economic expectations shift, whoever is in the White House is going to get an ugly suprise. Cuomo, Nunn, and Baker are smart enough not to avoid the lemmings' stampede toward the White House...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Avoiding Responsibility in the '80s | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

Loser's Last Laugh: By participating in out-of-league games, Ivy League players get a chance to prove they are not only smart. There are some bruising scholars out there...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: With Nothing to Lose, Something to Win | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...warm, sweet-smelling atmosphere of ice cream and music behind the counter always floats me into a completely primal mode of being. I drift and bop in a peacefully chaotic world, popping taster spoons until my stomach bloats, bullshitting with my fellow scoopers, or flying into smart-ass raps with the customers...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...setting up the SDI project, President Reagan signed a directive requiring that the system be "cost effective at the margin." Translation: adding new defenses must be cheaper than it would cost the Soviets to deploy missiles to counter them. Critics charge that hastily embarking on a smart- rocks system is a way to evade this requirement. "Phased deployment is an effort to obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Star Wars to Smart Rocks | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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