Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Julia Roberts is fragile and determined as a law student too smart for her own good. Denzel Washington is foxy and stalwart as the reporter who wants to break the story of murderous high-level corruption she has pieced together for a research paper she calls The Pelican Brief...
...North American box office), Wayne's World ($122 million) and Beethoven ($57 million) tickled audiences with humor that stretched all the way -- about a foot and a half -- from sitcoms to Saturday Night Live. The SNL-bred Wayne's World was agreeably hip, loose and clever, as befits smart guys acting goofy. But the other two films were hapless rehashes of working-girl and family themes done to death by the networks...
Before crime became Bill Clinton's responsibility, the President's critique of George Bush's performance was scathing and dismissive. "Bush confuses being tough with being smart," Clinton told me during the 1992 campaign, "especially on drugs. You can't get serious about crime without getting serious about drugs. Bush thinks locking up addicts instead of treating them before they commit crimes -- or failing to treat them once they're in prison, which is basically the case now -- is clever politics. That may be, but it certainly isn't sound policy, and the consequences of his cravenness could ruin...
...episodes on gun violence this year. Dr. Jay Winsten of the Harvard School of Public Health is working with producers and directors to develop programs with an anti-gun message. The goal, says Winsten, is to change kids' attitudes on the streets so they think it's "cool and smart" to walk away from a fight. The target is not the young drug dealers or gang members but the average kid from a rough neighborhood...
Last year, a Black friend of mine told me she didn't think the Asian stereotype was so bad. "When I walk into a store," she said, "people think I'm there to steal something. When they see you, they just think you're smart...