Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cathy goes on. "I'm not too clear about the other two. I think one was poor and virtuous and the other one was very smart, or some combination like that...
Megan laughs, "Well, I'm poor and you're virtuous, and God knows both of us are smart, so I guess it'll work out all right...
...came on like a silly Robert Redford, a would-be stud not quite as gorgeous or with it as he thought he was−but lots funnier. When Martin turned to feature films (with The Jerk in 1979), the challenge was to transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct...
HOWIE: Two million for that has-been? What do you think this is, the Salvation Army? His last movie did bubkes. The guy gets 40 grand, all of it deferred. This is war. Call me when you get smart. (He slams down the phone...
...euphoria of the St. Paul summit, Young conceded, "A lot of folk I thought were smart asses are a lot smarter than I thought they were." Jackson was more cautious, saying that his goal of "peer politics" for blacks within the party "is beginning to take place in ways that are mutually respectful." Translation: Mondale agreed to parts-but not all-of the so-called black agenda, which includes support for certain domestic and foreign policies as well as prominent roles for blacks in the Mondale organization...