Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French, it seems, are trying to revive their old reputation as a culture that is smart and naughty about sex. The modern version of French postcards is French cinema--not of the frothy old ooh-la-la sort but so serious that watching a woman caress a man's genitals is like taking an anatomy final at the Sorbonne. Four recent French films of high pedigree have featured sex that goes well beyond soft core. One, Catherine Breillat's Romance, has just opened here. Now we'll see if France and America speak the same dirty language...
...grown-up lives. But it's also here that we learn how to make choices about how to spend our time and expend our energy. I know there's a way to balance our true passions with our ill-fated pursuits, and I bet that Harvard students are smart enough to figure...
...self-improvement is exactly what it implies: academic success. Rather than spend an entire semester battling an uninspiring, impossible course, pick the brain of your genius peers and get them to help you out. To find a tutor in a particular subject, the Bureau of Study Council provides super-smart undergraduate students (495-2581; $4 per hour; term-billable...
...come up in the world and book money is beer money. And you're sharing library books with the big kids. Face another harsh reality: Everybody at this school, being so smart and all, can, believe it or not, recognize your handwriting. Which means that when they check out that book on Mating Habits of the Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page...
...were in a small meeting together, talking about a program Dan was running," she says. "I remember looking up and thinking, 'He's really smart. He's really good at what he does. I'm so lucky to have married...