Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charles goes off to school, and we meet Mr. Fallows (Glenn Shadix)--who we get to know as "Phallus," thanks to Charles pronunciation. He's smart enough to figure out that his student is some kind of deviant, but dumb enough to not avoid becoming a victim. The scene where Fallows' hand is ripped off and "handed" to him features what must be one of the most terrible what make up jobs in recent horror movie history...
...central government ministry imposing lockstep conditions on an untidy educational conglomerate. That is why so many schools are attempting to seize the future in strikingly independent ways. Take computers, for instance. At the University of California, Los Angeles, Egyptian-born senior professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla is using the smart machines to teach physics to 140 students. The computers can simulate experiments, from sound waves being measured in a pool of water to a 3-D, multicolored representation of molecules colliding...
...Player has already caused a stir in Hollywood, thanks to its smart tone, its veiled references to industry figures and its imposing cast of walk-on stars (dozens, and big ones). Will this all seem too insidey to the public? Maybe not. The decade-long spotlighting of the movie industry -- on Entertainment Tonight, in newspapers and best sellers -- has taught the mass audience that film production is a spectator sport. Like any other modern sport, it trades in money and celebrity, scandal and sex appeal; it has big winners and losers, all playing for high stakes, which they are happy...
Vorenberg, who was master of Dunster when Roberts was a tutor there, said, "He's a wonderful choice. He's smart...he understands the ideals and goals of Harvard...
...second day in this country, in 1963, he visited Harvard Square and told himself that one day he would own a show repair store here. he liked being around "young people, smart people, all sorts of kinds of people, poor people, rich people, all the happy people. "He spoke only Greek, worked three jobs simultaneously, saved money. On Saturday and Sunday nights he worked in Harvard Square's Felix shoe Repair, then located in the Massachusetts Avenue lot occupied toddy by Gnomon Copy. In 1969 Christos bought Felix Shoe Repair from the grandson of the original owner...