Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhythm. Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is heavy). Maybe WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, but in all other respects he's a fully qualified player -- except possibly in the brains department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough wit for both men, and after initial edginess they form a winning (and profitable) two-on-two team in a movie that is not as winning as it should be. Writer-director Ron Shelton covers the action excitingly, but his plot is strictly a two-handed...
Remember all of those whiz-bang close-ups of smart bombs zeroing in on Iraqi targets during the gulf war? Satellite data helped pinpoint the targets. But the Navy complains that owing to shortcomings in communications, the Air Force was able to get most of the data -- as well as the glory -- while Navy personnel were stuck with a limited role because they could receive only a tiny fraction of the vital information. As part of a plan for a sweeping reorganization of U.S. intelligence, CIA Director Bob Gates now says he will fix the mess so that all services...
...Square's coloring books prove that these days. Smart Coloring is the first rung of the corporate ladder. Any savvy child on the way to the top knows that to Scribble For Success, one has to stay in the lines. And by all means, to avoid "vivid tangerine...
HILLARY CLINTON (+1) Smart and, frankly, more popular with many than Bill. Drawback: she's from the same state...
...other times he falls behind and is just a kid who pulls out a comic book to read or a portable video game to play when he grows bored during meetings with studio executives or interviews with journalists. One is reminded that, though he may be successful and street-smart, he is hardly sophisticated: his appearance at last year's Cannes Film Festival was the first time in his life he had been outside...