Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practices, but that is no reason to deride their intellect. I am a high school honors student, and I have been called a nerd by people who are a lot dumber than I am -- and, believe me, I mean a lot. Since when is it a crime to be smart...
...They're smart. Well, anyway, their writers are. "There are jokes you won't get," says Groening, "unless you've actually attended a few classes in college." Lit. 101 will teach you that Lisa's poetry is inspired by Allen Ginsberg's and that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told...
Diamond's attorney, the prominent trial lawyer John R. williams, told The Yale Daily News that "Yale would not be smart" to let the case go to trial...
...very strong player, she really knows the game well," says freshman teammate Joan J. Ryoo. "She's a very smart player, She's always two steps ahead of everyone else. She saves our asses a lot of the time...
...Race. Deion Sanders thinks this a key reason--and I believe him. Despite the accomplishments of Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon, a racist myth prevails: blacks aren't smart enough to be quarterbacks. They lack the "necessities," as Dodger executive Al Campaigns once put it, referring go black managers...