Word: smarter
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...west by a river, north-south by an imaginary line--supposed to be an allegorical version of the United States? What exactly does Sokolov mean by ending with a long quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha? It is impossible to say; but it is certain that Sokolov is smarter than he is deep, and that he has hinted many times at the presence in his narrative of more meaning than is actually there...
...were quicker and smarter offensively," Williams said. "We worked the fast break well and you could tell after the first three minutes that we were in control...
Fogg Art Museum: The Fogg just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints...
...learned that pipes aren't insulated when you would bet a week's pay that they would be insulated," Hall said. "So you say, O.K., you guys should be smarter. Well, you couldn't be. Moses could not have done a better job than we did this year...
WHEN CRITICS dislike a work they don't want to pan publicly, they shower superlatives on its technique. Barry Lyndon, critic after critic has written, is an extraordinarily beautiful film. Unwilling to admit they saw Barry Lyndon as a failure (because they know Kubrick is smarter than they are and may have one more trick up his sleeve), they tell us how "beautiful", how "visually stunning" this clunker is. Up to a point, they are right. Barry Lyndon is an unusually beautiful film. But $11 million still buys an awful lot of beauty in almost any art form and Barry...