Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They're smart enough to go someplace where it's warm," Carnesale said...
Should the homeless, retarded and mentally-infirm elderly be exterminated to make room for smart people? Should the horrors of the Holocaust be ignored to rethink the old master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime...
Sadly, in the food revolution as in everything else, the poor are getting stuck with the greasy end of the stick. The affluent like to gorge on the kinds of high-fiber, heart-smart foods that were once relegated to the global peasantry: polenta, lentils, kale, bulgur wheat. Meanwhile, the fat-filled, heart-dumb foods once favored by kings and courtiers have been sedimenting down the socioeconomic scale. And, oh, the joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream...
...philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...
...moviegoers both do time -- and depending on the picture, two hours can seem like a life sentence. Time is the preoccupation of Frank Darabont's deeply satisfying prison drama about a man wrongly convicted of murder who plots revenge and escape. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are tough, smart, patient. So is the film...