Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know. They are smart guys, all of them, but ask yourself this: a year ago, did you know--or even guess--that when the Academy Awards rolled around again the odds-on favorite to sweep a bunch of the big ones would be something called Forrest Gump? Or that its chief competitor would be Pulp Fiction? And what about Four Weddings and a Funeral, also in the running for best picture? Did you imagine that a $4 million romantic comedy, made in England, with no big stars, would turn out to be, dollar-in, dollar-out, the most profitable picture...
...didn't. Bet you something else too: that the Messrs. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen are just as surprised as you are. When it comes to the movies, we are all hostages to the conventional wisdom of the moment--the smart and the smarter, the dumb and the dumber...
...start of Cock-a-doodle-doo, Philip Weiss' smart first novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 295 pages; $21), he--Jack Gold--has just finished working on an underdog's losing campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. The winner is popular Early Quinlan, who had been Secretary of State in a Republican Administration but, when times changed, switched parties with speed and grace...
...Binchy's novel Circle of Friends. It revolves around three convent-educated girls: Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), cautiously quirky; Nan (Saffron Burrows), incautiously ambitious, whose effort to seduce her way into the Protestant gentry brings her to near tragedy; and, at the center of the circle, Benny, large, plain, smart and, in Minnie Driver's performance, utterly luminous...
...psychologist and author of "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing" was the guest speaker for the third annual Karen Stone Lecture, sponsored jointly by the Psychology Department and the Smart Family Foundation...