Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That remarkable performance forced a worldwide re-evaluation. Advises Arnold Kantor, a former U.S. diplomat now at the Forum for International Policy in Washington: "One shouldn't be fooled. Jiang is enormously smart and capable, but his persona is unpretentious and folksy, almost intentionally disarming." Such revisionism has prompted people to recall earlier moments when Jiang showed his bite. At a meeting in Beijing with a prominent American, he praised the distinguished visitor in English for an inspired analysis of China's needs. Then in an aside in Chinese, he muttered, "This guy doesn't know a thing about China...
...artificial lake on top of a skyscraper and a chilling shot of Keanu Reeves walking out of a hospital to find all of Manhattan empty. Milton's penthouse exudes an atmosphere of slick, menacing, kinky-campy decadence--it's Hugh Hefner meets the Marquis de Sade. Hackford is smart enough not to let the cinematography get in the way of Pacino: as Milton, the actor is his own special effect. And when the actual special effects--including a wall sculpture that comes to swarming, slithery life--do appear, they pale in comparison to Pacino's "hoo-ha" rambunctiousness...
...world of rock concerts, audiences basically come in two flavors: really enthusiastic or really mellow. If a singer's smart, she'll respond to the atmosphere by playing off the signals she receives and tailor her own behavior to the mood she picks up from the crowd...
...years; it is also about who rules Russia after the year 2000, when presidential elections are due. Until now the oligarchs had clearly planned to have a major hand in electing the next President. They might well have put forward one of their own. In fact, Potanin, energetic, smart and articulate, is already being talked about as a future President, though he denied any such ambitions in an interview with TIME. Chubais, meanwhile, wants at least to be Prime Minister. But to succeed in politics one needs lots of money and media. Potanin has the money and is acquiring...
Maybe we should leave noir to the French and other outsiders; they are less likely to go simple with sentiment. Two handsome films, Jacques Audiard's A Self Made Hero and Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson, take a smart, stony-eyed look at chicanery in the '40s. Some cunning insects are on display, and not a tear needs to be shed for them or their victims...