Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsession with being No. 1 will not be a good thing in the environment around Cambridge. Because once he gets here, he will find amazingly brilliant people. Published authors. Award-winning musicians. Unbelievable scientists. Harvard specializes in knocking down your ego, in letting you know that you may be smart, but there is always someone smarter...
Four different smart people, one of whom is Herschbach, are featured as this second person in different versions of the commercial...
Usually with the case of a smart psycho, there' some sympathy or admiration that the character can evoke, turning the battle between good and evil into of opposing wills...
...mirabile visu, "Speed" is not Ted on a bus. Reeves' character Jack Trevens is tough and somehow intense. The movie doesn't try to make him out to be a rocket scientist--his partner Harry (Jeff Daniels) provides the technical smarts, constantly telling Travens the why and wherefore of the bombs they encounter. But Travens is believably street-smart, able to think on his feet...
...then, sometimes, picking them apart. In this one, the prime mover was Daniel R. Tisch, second son of Larry Tisch and general partner of the risk and arbitrage investment firm Mentor Partners. Says Danny, who encouraged Tisch to buy CBS stock in 1985: "My father has four very smart sons -- or three very smart sons and myself -- and my basic business is trading in securities and investing in securities and takeovers and in mergers and acquisitions. So I do have a fairly good idea of any of the issues that might arise in any merger. And I guess he just...