Word: smarted
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Throughout the '30s, Cagney enjoyed stardom in a series of feisty, defiantly urban parts: a street-smart swindler in Blonde Crazy (1931), a slum-bred cop in G-Men (1935), a ruined bootlegger in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). By late in the decade he was one of the highest-paid actors in the country, a status he achieved partly by walking out repeatedly on Warners to press for higher pay and protest its grueling working conditions and bumper-to-bumper production schedule. For all his fame, Cagney had little taste for Hollywood night life. He liked best the company...
Harvard Magazine began its classified section in the 1970s, and personals have been a part of the back pages of the periodical ever since. Rao says that the number of personals has increased slightly in recent years, and that business is always brisk in November and May. Smart shoppers know that those issues are circulated to alumni of the graduate schools in addition to the College...
...trouble with most of the newcomers is that they look like reruns already. You Again (Jack Klugman as a divorced father) and Tough Cookies (Robby Benson as a Chicago police detective) are about as dumb and hackneyed as the genre gets. CBS's Fast Times, though based on a smart, funny movie about high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean...
...Drug Abuse and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Chicago Correspondent Barbara Dolan and New York Reporter Jeanne McDowell talked with employees and employers. "From $100-a-week Wall Street runner to $1 million-a-year chief executive officer," observes McDowell, "no individual was exempt, no group of people too smart, too talented, too educated or too successful to be touched by the problem." Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty was reporting his third cover story on drug abuse since 1981. He observes that "corporate antidrug programs and proposed mass testing of Government workers amount to a disturbing admission that all attempts...
...fire is an uneasy mystery, though a sprinkler system had been disconnected in the cold. About all Lewandowski could tell her was, "There's been a fire at the barn. There'll be some papers to sign." He recalls with admiration, "She asked how I was doing. Katrina's smart, realistic. She understands the track...