Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advocates got a chance to pitch their favorite nostrums to the President-elect. It provided the public with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...
...much for consensus. You are a smart man. Get on with making decisions as fast...
...never read Vanity Fair, let alone appeared on its cover). Instinctively sensing that a cover-up is in the making, she keeps hectoring Kaffee toward heroism. The antagonist is Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, Marine commander at Gitmo, not so much played as demonized by Jack Nicholson -- a wickedly smart psychopath, utterly self-confident and self-righteous. Nicholson sees the humor in this dark character but then freezes each potential laugh with a gaze that is hostile to anything not on his own agenda...
...possible that the son of a notorious failure had a more than usual need to succeed. It is possible that the son-in-law of the mighty head of mighty MGM had one or two things to prove to his tough, smart, neurotic wife, not to mention ever cynical Hollywood. But as Thomson shows, Selznick cannot be pickled in conventional psychological wisdom...
...Ross Perot. "Let's face it," says a Clinton aide, "the 20 million people who voted for Perot are the swing voters from now on, and they want reform. The burden's on us to do something real, not just cosmetic. It's a case of good policy being smart politics...