Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...locales are often small college towns, her characters often locked in small family struggles Frequently an important member of the family is dead, divorced, or mentally disturbed. A ring of failure circumscribes these individuals they aren't terribly smart or talented, and they have problems which seem so overwhelming that they shut them out, and concentrate on the simpler task of just getting by. "The Nature of Almost Everything" begins. "Tell you at thirty-six my goals are to stay sober and pay off my MasterCard bill...
...less hopeful story, "Smart," the main character says flatly: "It's just that people, they don't ever do what they don't want to do. And they can't ever be what they aren't already." But in "The Wellman Twins," Robison shows us a less determined reality, one that can be altered by the imagination perhaps. Bluey confesses at last that the letters...
...energy; he can bounce off a bookcase in the thrall of scholarship, or sit tense and still as Avigdor tries to figure out the riddle of Anshel's identity. Amy Irving, of the honeyed voice and witchcrafty allure, makes the role of an old-fashioned woman sexy and smart. And Streisand has fun playing a woman out of her time, a figure of both feminism and fun. In rabbinical drag she could pass for the comic David Brenner; in the tender scenes with Irving, she is the sassy Brooklyn girl coming to appreciate a Jewish Lithuanian princess...
Then it became evident where Bart Smart had gone wrong. Maybe he had been thinking of the character the Bulldogs had displayed by never giving up during their eight straight losses; more likely, he was referring to the superior character all Yalies develop by taking 36 courses instead of Harvard's measly...
...length movie about his school, but countered that "Love Story was written at Yale, and there were several Yale names in it even though it took place at Harvard." He added that "in Bedtime for Bonzo [starring Ronald Reagan, who went to Eureka], the monkey in the end gets smart enough to go to Yale...