Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it is worth giving the score so people can be smart enough to see there isn't that much difference [between schools ranked close to each other]," Morse said. "But there is a difference between...
...from this outrage, this tragedy, this affront to the button-down proprieties of the 1950s? Surely something was revealed here about American materialism. Or the cynicism of its media masters. Or perhaps the gullible neediness of the public, yearning to identify with a guy who somehow managed to be smart, cute and lucky at once, just the way we all want...
...Fair may be gimmicky, but it is also street-smart, chatty and instructive, as well as the best reprise of the 1992 campaign likely to see print. While overly charitable to their candidates, the authors are meticulous and nonideological about the political narrative. There are, to be sure, scant revelations. Mary and James have future careers in politics and remain chary about violating trust in the quest for truth...
...does shed new light on the aborted effort to dump Dan Quayle because of a secret poll showing that the Vice President was costing Bush 4 to 6 percentage points. (She later strains credulity when she gushes, "We knew the real day-to-day Quayle, and he was really smart.") Where Bob Woodward breathlessly announced in The Agenda that the President has a temper, James rightly treats these tantrums as common knowledge and not to be taken too seriously. "The truth of the matter," he says, "is that ((Clinton)) was all smoke and no fire...
...uniquely open and could find the positive in almost anything," said Heyman. "When we were students he made us all feel smart...