Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade--the allusion seems downright genital...
Whether intended or not, you did a hatchet job on Duluth and its citizens, and in the process came off as a smart-assed elitist. If, in fact, that is you nature, Harvard credentials won't help you in the "real" world. If your article was an attempt at humor, I'd grade it an "F". You'll have to study more Jim Murray columns...
...alternately sentimental and nasty, inspirational and hard-boiled, by turns a conventional autobiography, a gossippy cuss-and-tell expose, an executive primer, a knowing account of Chrysler's renaissance and a sketchy excursion into public policy prescription. Sort of Citizen Lee: What They Don't Teach the Street-Smart One-Minute Salesperson About the Search for Excellence at Harvard Business School...
...less in the future than it has in the past, however, largely because Gorbachev shrewdly deferred to his elders during the transition from the leadership of Yuri Andropov to that of Konstantin Chernenko and avoided an old-young confrontation. As a Western diplomat in Moscow puts it, "Gorbachev was smart not to push Chernenko out. He just waited for the old man to drop...
...sure, the Soviets would pay a price: such measures would reduce the numbers of warheads and decoys that a missile could carry, and that would make post- boost or mid-course interception somewhat easier for the U.S. But there are clever ways to get around that too. Smart rocks, for example, might be fooled by equally smart decoys that sent out signals like those of warheads...