Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like his dad, Bush had no patience running for small-time local offices; no one gave him much chance of winning his race. But he was a natural--handsome, "not the smartest guy in the world but smart enough," as Younger says, blessed with an honest love of pressing the flesh. He won the G.O.P. primary, then ran against state senator Kent Hance, who used a populist tactic Bush would never forget. Hance compared his own West Texas "credentials" with Bush's Andover-Yale-Harvard ones. When Hance got through with him, Bush smelled like some exotic houseplant...
...LORD GOD: No. It takes longer to get smart guys up to speed. But I shall strive with him, and eventually...
...even if the Army is never fast and light, the U.S. military will still possess an unmatchable tactical dominance over its opponents. That worries some Pentagon thinkers. In the next conflict, they fret, a really smart foe won't fight the U.S. in the skies or on the ground--places where victory is unlikely. Instead, it will be smart and strike far away from the war zone--in the heart of a major U.S. city, perhaps--with chemical or biological weapons. Even the slickest Stealth bomber couldn't stop that...
Every epochal moment in Pirates of Silicon Valley (June 20, 8 p.m. E.T.), TNT's smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak...
...parade or edifying soap operas, but of stories that touch our essential humanity, told with care and flair. Is it possible for a film to resonate in a billion heads at once, hooking adults as intensely as fairy tales once mesmerized kids? Can we have a film that is smart, pure and funny and, just by the way, a little profound...