Word: smartest
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...smartest two shows on TV today are ‘South Park’ and ‘The Simpsons,’” he said. “They’re smart, they’re funny and they keep surprising the audience. I’d love to write for them...
...counterfactual arguments about us not being able to “enjoy drinking without drinking in a way that beer ads on TV have taught [us] is the fun way to drink.” What does this mean, exactly? Does he mean to say that we, the smartest students in the country, have been brainwashed to think that kegs are the answer? Besides the obvious fact that very few if any commercials actually picture kegs, this argument carries no weight. Even if we were to have been somehow manipulated by commercials to think that a certain kind of drinking...
Danso elicited the only laugh of the service when she said, “He was one of the smartest people I have ever met, and yet he wasn’t a geek—there are a lot of geeks at Harvard...
...Miami Vice, look not to Mann but to Fastlane (Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), about two buddy cops who use--and destroy--confiscated sports cars and other pricey toys to catch high rollers. It disproves the theory that TV, a middlebrow medium, is neither as smart as the smartest movies nor as dumb as the dumbest. Fastlane is, blissfully, exactly as dumb as the dumbest movies. Made by the uni-monikered director McG (Charlie's Angels), it reproduces the high-gloss, empty-calorie experience of a summer action flick, down to the loud soundtrack and the black-guy-white...
...scientific, technological and economic issues affect our understanding of the climate conundrum and our response to it. Huge uncertainties exist in these fields, and new climate observations, scientific studies and technological developments are constantly added to the equation. One fact, however, is indisputable: President Bush has crafted the strongest, smartest and most practical climate-change program the U.S. has ever had. No previous Administration has devoted as much Cabinet-level attention to the issue or provided such resources to climate-change science, technology and mitigation programs. America has never before engaged in so many bilateral climate-change partnerships with both...