Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welfare, and tells them I'm neglecting my children and I'm beating them and they never go to school and they weren't up to date with their shots and dah dah dah. I tried to fight, but I wasn't ready for court. I am not a smart person by any means. They closed my welfare case because I had no children, which meant that I had no money, no electric money, food money. I got thrown out of my apartment. I would have been a goner if I hadn't been taken in by Vinnie's brother...
...keep children coming back for more. The companies aim to make their toys into celebrities so that children will accept no substitutes. The strategy is working. Youngsters now pick out their playthings with the fussiness of a young professional shopping for his or her first Saab. "They are smart kids growing up very fast," says Polly Hallett, marketing director for Fisher- Price toys...
...shallow characters here do little more than illustrate a theme that would have worked better perking just below the surface than splattered all over it. The film may keep you somewhere near the edge of your seat while you're watching it, and there's some good street-smart dialogue and acting, but everything here is subordinated to Friedkin's bad-boy style of the world. It's just not much...
...only problem is that Subway isn't as smart as it would like to be. In fact, it really isn't smart at all. Visually, stylistically, thematically, et cetera, it comes up empty in the Brains Department. The script is banal. The acting, deadpan-dull. And the images clutter up like so many hip books on a crowded coffee table. With the possible exception of Gremlins, Joe Dante's unintentionally horrific testament to the decline of Western Civilization, Subway may be the most completely offensive, manipulative, and downright irritating picture in recent memory...
...only problem with this approach is that it requires a light touch. See Alan Cox's wonderful Repo Man or Scorsese's street-smart After Hours for effortless demonstrations of a delicate hand. But Subway, with its insistent apathy and learn-while-you're-luny preachiness, is as subtle in the end as a Punch and Judy pugil stick...