Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their foreman. Or scoutmaster, or baby-sitter; one of his clockers, Horace, 13, spends his time leafing wistfully through a catalog of kids' toys. Strike is only 19 himself, a scrawny fellow with a stutter and a bleeding ulcer that he treats with vanilla Yoo-Hoo. But he's smart; smart enough to know not to wear gold, not to trust anyone, not to get greedy and not to do product, because cocaine messes you up. He has $21,000 in cash stored around town, and he tells himself that this is his leaving-town fund...
...BOTTOM LINE: A star turn and smart action sequences enliven an otherwise abstract film...
...HEALTH: Smart Pills and Think Drinks...
Welcome to the wide-eyed world of "smart drugs." Over the past two years, a growing number of IQ-hungry Americans -- from high school students to octogenarians -- have taken to chemical means of "cognitive enhancement," downing a variety of food supplements and prescription drugs to prepare for tests, prime themselves for business meetings or just burn a little brighter at parties...
Several dozen "smart bars" have opened around the country, replacing beer and margaritas with Memory Fuel, Fast Blast and Mind Mix -- amino-acid cocktails that, as one user sees it, "help restore the power edge that people lose as they get older." Smart stuff is also the drug of choice at "raves" -- '60s-style happenings now popular on the West Coast. But despite the mounting enthusiasm, many scientists say the only thing smart about these substances is the way they've been marketed. "Smart drugs," asserts Dr. James McGaugh, director of the center for the neurobiology of learning and memory...