Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even trendiness itself, or at least the slavish chronicling of consumer ephemera, has the taint of the passe. Many magazines that served as arbiters of hipness have gone out of business, including Egg, 7 Days, Smart and Fame. In the meantime, Vanity Fair thrives by sticking to cover subjects that have the rosy glow of maturity: Farrah and Ryan, Sly Stallone, Madonna. At the same time, such magazines as Workbench, Homeowner and 1001 Home Ideas are briskly building up their circulation. One of the hottest newcomers is Countryside, a Hearst glossy about the virtues of conservation, rural landscapes and life...
...Baldwin plays dumb and earnest in an engaging way. Basinger is something of a problem. She is a very self- absorbed actress who gives the impression of a woman trying to get in on a joke she does not quite understand. Watching her reminds one wistfully of tart, smart Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys. But you can't have everything, and considering the difficulties of its creation, The Marrying Man is something: a comedy that bounces skittishly down a lane that memory has not traveled in a while. Maybe it's silly. But it does awaken a nostalgic...
...HAMPSHIRE. In the town of Derry, Pamela Smart, a 23-year-old high school instructor with big brown eyes, Gainsborough ringlets and a taste for heavy- metal music, deflowered William Flynn, a 15-year-old student, after they watched the steamy movie 9 1/2 Weeks on the VCR. She then persuaded Flynn and two friends to do away with her husband Greg, who was found shot in the back of the head last...
...Exeter, court watchers began queuing up in the wee hours to get good seats. The Boston Herald set up a 900 number, at 95 cents a minute, for readers to call in verdicts. One witness, who has already sold her story to Hollywood for $100,000, testified that Smart told the boys to lock the dog in the cellar so it would not have to watch the dastardly deed...
...fact, loomed large in her calculations. According to prosecutors, Smart decided to get rid of Greg rather than divorce him for fear that her husband, a 24-year-old insurance salesman, would keep not only their condo but also their pet. So, argued prosecutor Paul Maggiotto, she "got her hooks so deep into the hormones" of Flynn that he could not resist her influence. Last week the jury agreed, and Judge Douglas Gray sentenced Smart to life in prison without parole for conspiring to commit murder. All three boys pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and face the possibility...