Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intellectual prostitution is getting your feet tangled. Stockman's confessions about supply-side economics in the famous Atlantic article, "The Education of David Stockman" was perhaps the best example. At that time, he was lucky. Stockman, despite his indiscretions, knew too much to be fired. Later, Stockman was smart. He jumped into the investment banking boat before the mess the Republican Administration had made of the economy became obvious...
Some Democratic officials regard Cuomo's announcement as part of a strategy of running for President by not running. Party leaders in key states see Cuomo's move as a practical one. Says New Hampshire State Democratic Chairman George Bruno: "It was the smart and logical thing to do." Cuomo is the Democrats' most influential and visible state executive, and it would make no sense for him to abandon his forum. Notes Alvin From, executive director of the Democratic Leadership Council: "The best strategy for a Governor in his position is to get safely re-elected this year...
...Department of Defense has done its part to fuel Massachusetts' revival. Bay State companies write the software programs for today's so-called smart weapons and build the hardware to run them. The economic forecasting firm Data Resources estimates that 16% of the state's growth from 1981 to 1988 will be the result of Pentagon spending. Massachusetts, the state usually described as the most liberal in the nation, currently ranks fourth among all states in the amount it receives in defense contracts: some $7.7 billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based...
...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...
Bohm practiced all the post-modernist tenets long before they were preached, yet his buildings provide none of the easy reassurance of neat taxonomy. His work has evolved continually, but not in response to shifts in fashion or doctrine. Like Finland's Alvar Aalto, Bohm invented his own humane, smart architectural dialect, and then waited patiently for the rest of the world to learn...