Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funniest prank. The hecklers jeer at love scenes, hoot at tacky special effects and pounce on every dumb line. Creator Joel Hodgson and his colleagues throw in savvy technical references ("I think we just flew through a dissolve," someone cracks during an airplane flight) along with a torrent of smart-mouthed ad libs. "How do we stand on fuel?" asks an onscreen astronaut. "I'm for it," comes the offscreen retort. In the tense few seconds before lift-off, a voice pipes up, "Did I leave the water running?" A scientist leans into a pair of earphones, trying to pick...
While we're all down at Soldiers Field and you all are back across the river studying (or maybe you don't study much since you're so smart already), I'll spread the word to all of the members of the "jock sub-culture" that they may as well put in some more hours in the training room, the weight room, Gordon, Bright or Briggs because once they get back across the river they're doomed to struggle with their academic inferiority. Hollie J. Moore...
...mingles diet and exercise features with such provocative cover-line topics as "Why Men Take Mistresses." (The answer, a women's magazine classic, is not sex but lack of marital communication.) Soon to come are an entry from the company that produces Rolling Stone and a revamped version of Smart, a sardonic, profile-oriented monthly...
...shift at Smart results from the decision by Terry McDonell, its founding editor, to jump ship from a leaky rowboat to take charge of Esquire, which he likens to "walking onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower." The change prompted Smart owner Owen Lipstein to merge his shaky start-up with a proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes...
...fill the void that had been occupied by drugs. Her first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...