Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Editorial Assistant Mary Catherine Orr, who coordinated this and some 40 earlier conferences. Says she: "Board Member Walter Heller and I have been involved with them longer than anyone else. I've become fond of the members, since I've known many of them for so long. Like all smart people, they are easy to work with." We find them highly informative as well...
...Perhaps the audience at some B-minus sci-fi thriller in the 1950s solemnly attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake of the 1953 Invaders from Mars you can see tongues burrowing into cheeks on both sides of the camera. Sometimes, though, directors can outsmart themselves. Invaders from Mars is so good at mimicking...
...contract with an unlisted help line. Bargain-basement software firms like Paperback take credit-card numbers, time calls with a stopwatch and charge customers by the minute. One result: fewer queries. "If people have to pay a few dollars for the phone call," says Osborne, "it's amazing how smart they...
Bachrach, on the other hand needs to do some creating. And his campaign has attempted to portray this powerful Massachusetts politician as the outsider, who will fight all the bigwigs in Washington for "YOUR" rights. The Bachrach message is, here's a scruffy, street-smart kid, who's not going to be put off by anybody even if the name is Kennedy...
...primary-color silliness for camp effect. "Charlie's Angels was great camp," says the show's co-producer, Aaron Spelling, "and the audience accepted it as such." Today, after a generation of taken-for-granted irony, it is often hard to know what is smirky and what is serious. Smart yuppies and new wavers say they are fans of The Jetsons and The Joe Franklin Show and the Jerry Lewis telethon. And they mean it. Sort...