Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps in the canoe. "He's smart, but I can't teach him to paddle," jokes Madison...
...just does his thing, it's better for Mondale," says a Democratic Party official who deals with the black leader. "Mondale doesn't need to be too closely identified with Jesse Jackson. And you know something? Jesse knows that would be disastrous for Mondale. He's smart...
Jake appears torn between the two great adolescent impulses: rebellion and brooding. Jake the brooder downs wine with his girlfriend, races across town on his motorbike, and walks everywhere with a permanent glaze of confusion and despair. Jake the rebel plays the quintessential smart-ass, letting out sarcasm faster than he can understand it. This Jake mouths things like "Don't ever touch me or my brother again," even as Sam appears ready to smash him into the wall. This Jake assures his brother's principal there will be no more fights "Because I promise...
Jake the Brooder and Jake the Smart Ass we know well. Those Jakes are adolescence according to Hollywood. Unable to solve problems, they either sulk them or Sherry Lansing, largely responsible for Kramer vs. Kramer introduce a different teenager here, a teenager who can't just drink away his problems or race away on his motorbike. His brother, saying don'tcare where we go-let's just go, offers the route many would choose...
...security measures in the face of terrorist threats in Beirut, a CIA handbook advising political assassinations, blackmail and kidnapings in Nicaragua, and fights within his Government about arms-control policy. Declared Mondale: "A President must not only assure that we're tough. [He] must also be wise and smart in the exercise of that power...