Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Language out loud, and in derision--that's what Americans want to be doing. Those sitcom characters certainly aren't as smart as you are! You saw this whole thing coming from the very first! Yes, you sitting there on the couch with the glazed look and the short attention-span...
...never seen a sitcom with a genuinely intelligent character. At least, a character who didn't have some serious personality flaw to go along with the brainpower. No, that would threaten the average American. All those smart characters must have something wrong with them. They make the perfect kind of despicable foil--superior enough to resent, yet inferior enough to dismiss. The anti-intellectual American can rest easy...
...lead prosecutor in the McMartin case, MacFarlane is portrayed as a dangerously misguided zealot. During her videotaped interviews (portions of which are excerpted verbatim from the transcripts), children initially deny abuse until MacFarlane goads them with such remarks as "Are you gonna be stupid, or are you gonna be smart and help us out here...
...female lead in two huge hits, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and in the new box-office favorite French Kiss, she is also the current soul of romantic comedy. And what you see on screen is what you get on the set. "She's adorable, huggable, smart, funny and strong," says French Kiss director Lawrence Kasdan, listing the five Comic Heroine virtues as if they had been minted for Ryan. "Men want to be married to her, and women want to be her friends.'' Says Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and directed Sleepless...
...many days on NBC's Today show, Jones said that such prisoner tales of confessions shouldn't be taken seriously. Jones has been pressing his client's case hard in the media the past few days. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says this is part of a smart and necessary strategy. "The trial needs to be moved from Oklahoma to someplace where emotions aren't so high. What Jones is doing is speaking to all the potential jurors out there in an effort to counter all of the media reports that in many cases have already convicted McVeigh."Oklahoma Explosion...