Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeffrey is a play too smart for self-pity. But in daring to laugh, then to cry, it reveals itself as a cunning twist on the old-fashioned Broadway-style comedy. It begins with a group grope and ends with a kiss. It is underscored with dreamy, pertinent Gershwin songs (Fascinating Rhythm, Embraceable You, They Can't Take That Away from Me). And it considers, with a wisdom born of irreverence, a genteel old dilemma. Until the pill, a threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially...
...stars came out in constellations because they recognized in Clinton one of their own. Not just that he plays the saxophone, a little. Or that Hillary is a smart, tough lawyer, like most Hollywood moguls. Or that Tipper Gore is a photojournalist with a motherly interest in pop music. Or that Chelsea was working her video recorder at the Inaugural. What matters is that Clinton is a prime communicator, a beacon of middle-class charisma, a lover of being loved, a believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling...
...Moynihan pooh-poohs Clinton's plan to lower capital-gains taxes for new business investments only: "Smart lawyers could 'break up' an existing company to create 'new' businesses almost overnight...
School Presidents: They've got President Curry. We've got Neil Rudenstine. Neil was recently voted one of the 10 sexiest men by Boston Magazine. The man is smart, powerful and now sexy. What can't he do? Coolness of President, nod to Harvard...
...Bush, his start-up problems won't matter. "What does matter is results," he said. "I believe that Clinton knows what he ought to do with the deficit and the economy. But I don't know if he has the political guts to do it. He will be smart if he does. And if he doesn't, it will eat him. We didn't have guts enough to solve it, and it ate President Bush...