Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't quite fit in socially but whose talents cannot be denied. His language, dress and diet are an affront to mothers everywhere, and he often gropes when obliged to search out the right word for an ad or a statement to the press. He is also smart to the point of cynicism, and there are times when there is something almost vulpine in his manner: his eyes are preternaturally bright, his head constantly aswivel, ever alert for prey or peril. But mostly what you sense about him is the loyalty and the passionate convictions of an outsider...
...Temple Hills Drive, Lois Aldrin, wife of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, is dressed in a smart lounge outfit and brown sandals. Their house in Emerald Bay was evacuated at 2 p.m. "Emerald Bay has its own fire department, and I thought surely they would stop it," she says. Aldrin has no way to know whether she was right. She had time to grab only one item other than a billfold. "See, this is what I took," she says, opening up a shirt box from Neiman Marcus. Inside there are miniature flags, first-day stamp covers, letters...
President Clinton is worrying his aides more than ever with his verbose and minutiae-encrusted public statements. Advisers fret that in trying to appear smart, especially on matters of foreign policy, Clinton looks mired in niggling particulars. During one long-winded presidential response at a press conference, George Stephanopoulos grabbed Mack McLarty's wrist to point at his watch. "The upside is that Clinton explains everything, but the downside is that he gets too detailed," says a senior official...
...place seems amiable enough -- cozily Edwardian, beckoning, a lullaby for the senses. Period photos of adventurers, early editions of Jules Verne and Dorian Gray, a mahogany bar where a fellow serves "smart drinks," heavy on the ginkgo. This is the Explorer's Lounge, the front room of a Virtual World shop in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. But behind the paneled walls, some pioneering menace is afoot. Five kill-crazy nerdlingers will soon engage in mortal combat, 21st century style, against a tenderfoot with a cunning computer handle: Cyber Rick...
...insist that scientists have not absolutely proved that significant global warming will occur. While that's true, the evidence was enough to persuade dozens of nations to sign the Rio treaty. Clinton is counting on industry to accept that even if climate change is not a certainty, it's smart to buy some insurance against disaster...