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...make money these days. Years ago, I hear, they used to be satisfied wit one-room apartments, a hot plate and a library card. Writers and intellectuals used to stake their authority on their poverty. They had perspective; they were poor in a rich man's world. Today, the smartest of the smart-set need a little place in the Berkshires, a sporty car and a big old colonial on a hill. Can they keep their authority and their perspective...
...House did a very wise thing: it went silent. Sources dried up, officials hunkered down; the denial was out, the policy flag had been squarely planted and the White House decided simply not to respond to any but the most damaging questions. As a senior Republican official said, "The smartest thing they've done all week is shut up." In fact, Clinton and Gore left town altogether, heading to the heartland to sell the previous night's message...
...BEST SEASON Season 4 (1992-93) is the series' smartest: Kramer in L.A.; Jerry and George's "show about nothing"; the show in which Susan's father is revealed to be John Cheever's lover; The Master of My Domain episode; The Virgin and The Bubble Boy shows. A mix of high and low, of the self-referential and the hip, of things underfoot and out of left field...
...smartest thing about Wag the Dog is that Levinson never puts a face on the President. We never really know--nor really care--about his status or his quest to be reelected. Instead, whether Brean will actually have his Albanian showdown remains more important...
...accounts implying that Kennedy's Harvard intellectuals were decamping, abandoning the White House to a bunch of Texas yokels: "It's just a damned lie is what it is. Why, I got this little ole boy, Trillin, who wrote me a brilliant speech called 'The Spirit of St. George.' Smartest little booger you'd ever hope to meet. He can write circles around those Harvard pissants...