Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters seem locked in-to careers, to whole lives. The only one who will break out is Dreyfuss, smarter and more sensitive than the others but careful not to show it. His high school teacher tells him of the time he left town to go to college but came back after only a semester ("I wasn't the competitive type"); the scene captures the slightly anxious self-deceptions that Dreyfuss's contemporaries will soon be using. Dreyfuss climbs aboard his plane for college still carrying a radio tuned to the favorite local station. The radio plays until...
...much of that old worshipful respect for masculine power in this new generation. I don't see younger women copping out with coy giggles in intellectual bouts because it is more attractive to be charming, and easier to let the man think he is smarter. I don't hear as much abrasive yelling of "Chauvinist pig! Male supremacist!" etc. But I do hear a lot of cool ironic hissing. Three years ago I felt practically traumatized before the picture of Dustin Hoffman in "Straw Dogs" wreaking bloody havoc on the men who had raped his wife when she asked...
...instrumental in pushing through a constitutional amendment that formally retained the Congress (though it was stripped of power). "Geisel has a military appearance but a civilian mind," says an editor in Sāo Paulo. "With Médici it was the other way around. Geisel is smarter and he seems to belong to no one. He has a chance...
Just the same, these kids are smarter than we were, on the whole, and more serious. While some seek answers in street gangs, others concentrate on vocational classes, and they all talk a lot about making it-meaning making money. After all, growing up in one of the poorest sectors of Los Angeles implants a desire to have, not necessarily to reform things. As it stands, they are walled in, and they are trying in their own ways...
...would dance the boogaloo and even lead the crowd in cheers. To confuse opponents, he once had his players switch jersey numbers. To "get the crowd going with us," he has charged onto the floor and deliberately drawn a technical foul. "I know some of them coaches are smarter," drawls Driesell, "and some are better lookin', but none of 'em is gonna outwork ole Lefty...