Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children's programming, thus creating a potent challenger to Viacom's Nickelodeon. "Acquisition of the Family Channel would mark another step in Murdoch's drive to establish a dominant presence in production, packaging and distribution," says Steven Rattner, a media-investment banker at Lazard Freres. "It looks smart...
DIED. BO WIDERBERG, 66, Swedish writer-director of trenchant films about young outsiders; of undisclosed causes; in Angelholm, Sweden. From his smart, sensitive Raven's End (1963) to the Lolita-in-reverse All Things Fair (1995), Widerberg sympathized with kids who valiantly and vainly fought the system. His 1967 hit Elvira Madigan, a lusciously limned story of love on the run, put Piano Concerto No. 21 on the charts. Mozart never sounded so sexy as when he underscored the doomed nuzzling of Pia Degermark and Thommy Berggren...
...attention of 13-year-olds and thirtysomethings alike, it is because they have avoided coming off as dramatized infomercials for the National Organization for Women. Most of these characters are in fact the product of a Camille Paglia feminism that embraces the very pragmatic idea that women can be smart and successful and still care about shoes, Vogue and, of course, the charms of the opposite...
NEIL SIMON'S RUMORS IS APPROPRIATELY subtitled: "A Farce." True to the name, it's the sort of comedy that runs the risk of coming across as more silly than witty. But an able cast and smart directing choices can render it side-splittingly funny, as demonstrated with glorious success in the current production showing on the Loeb mainstage...
...Administration, then its concern is misplaced. If criminals would like to enter a house, all they have to do is ask a student to let them in or, even more easily, follow a student in to the house. Once we get universal key card access, Harvard students should be smart enough not to let in others...