Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answers, "Basically, I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian in the same herniated sentence, and calls three different women "raccoon-eyed," which sounds like something Philip Marlowe said while ducking bullets...
...everything from child care and parental leave to infant nutrition, Head Start, apprenticeship training, gun control and -- well, the list is almost endless. In a callous drone, the less fortunate have heard a single Republican note for 12 years: "You're on your own." Quayle's complaint may be smart politics -- the White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome (and so is now suddenly urging a continuation of the "Reagan-Bush partnership"). But because of what two G.O.P. Administrations have failed to do, Quayle...
...once we had the luxury of waiting out the sound bites, asking the follow-up questions and then getting on to totally fresh stuff. It's a wonderful moment when you realize you've been able to sort out those things he really knows, those things that are smart but that he has not been able to explain well, and those things that still do not make much sense. You can't do that on TV. You can't do it in a one-hop fuselage interview with Bill Clinton. And you certainly can't do it with George Bush...
What is actually onstage is a glorious eruption of color and comedy and confidence. Like the phalanx of limousines outside, it celebrates New York as the city longs to see itself -- stylish, street-smart, sophisticated, ; successful and, in comparison with Los Angeles, blessedly serene. For celebrities, Guys and Dolls has become a must-see. Last week Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were there; the week before, it was Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley. NBC correspondent and best-selling author Betty Rollin had to settle for standing room while reporting a story. Yet what gives the show an advance sale...
...flip side of her passionate commitment and shatara (an admiring Arabic word for intellect and savvy) is an arrogance that makes her bluntly impatient with anyone less smart, less quick, less decisive. She can assume too much and forget who really is boss. After she independently agreed with Baker in Madrid that Washington would be the venue for bilateral talks with the Israelis, Yasser Arafat himself slapped her down. "Who appointed you," he reportedly asked, "Baker or me?" (She is careful to admit no connection to the P.L.O...