Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center are two of the movies' most engaging young actors: Goldblum, with his stolid, vulpine charm, and Pfeiffer. Trim, smart and drop-dead gorgeous, Pfeiffer has been nibbling at stardom since her stints in Grease II and Scarface. Now, by animating this sparkling thriller-satire with her seen- it-all elegance, she has every right to feast...
...junior Russell Riopelle, whose smart setting enabled Harvard powerhouse hitters Mohan Nadkarni and Scott Alpert to run a devastating offense, the Crimson gained a 10-0 lead in the first game against Yale...
...ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down a long bar counter (and over a passed-out customer), the Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space and time, then solves them with an originality that hits the viewer like a rabbit- punch line. The lovers repose in bed, a turnstile fan lazing above them, Venetian blinds notching shadows on their backs, and outside their window looms...
Unless one believes that forecasting techniques are somehow regressing, or that forecasters are not as smart as they used to be, one must at least entertain the notion that forecasting itself is suspect in turbulent times. There are many important uncertainties, none of the forecasters has been endowed with a crystal ball, and the resulting forecasts disguise rather than illuminate the critical uncertainties. Facing such circumstances, Royal Dutch/Shell has scrapped the notion of forecasting in favor of scenarios as a basis for evaluating the future. And unlike most other large firms which tried scenario planning, Shell has made it work...
...well known for its department of Hitler studies, headed by Jack ("J.A.K.") Gladney, the novel's narrator. Students are also offered courses in popular culture, seminars in car crashes and cereal-box texts, a professor named Alfonse ("Fast Food") Stompanato and a teaching staff of New York emigres, "smart, thuggish, movie- mad, trivia-crazed . . . here to decipher the natural language of the culture, to make a formal method of the shiny pleasures they'd known in their Europe- shadowed childhoods...