Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken by surprise this way is an Albright nightmare. The revelation came just as she was enjoying the moment she had worked for--and her parents had prepared her for--her entire life, a life spent leaving nothing to chance. "There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them," she says. She is the girl who organized her neatly underlined notes in college into 15 different colored notebooks. She rises before dawn and stays up late, reading everything. She rehearses sound bites so they sound unrehearsed. "I do not believe that...
...diplomat. I'm such a political person." Translation: she is not about to depart radically from current policies. The Albright version of Administration policy will look pretty much like the Christopher version. She was chosen as a team player, she helped formulate the current positions, and she is smart enough to let Bill Clinton be master of his own foreign policy...
...paper," left to pursue a music career. Kedar Massenburg, a 32-year-old record-company executive, heard Badu's demo tape and offered to sign her to his fledgling label, Kedar Entertainment. Says Badu: "I had several offers, but I went with him because he was young, black, very smart, and he had a vision. None of the other labels had a vision. I was afraid I'd get lost in the shuffle of a bigger label...
...millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan...
...kids these days so darn smart that the College should undermine its housing philosophy just to accommodate thirty more of them? We tend to doubt...