Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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REMEMBER: PARTY HARD, BUT PARTY SMART...
...Still smarting from Atlanta's last-minute theft of the centennial Olympiad, Athens is once again the top contender ? closely followed by its centuries-old rival, Rome. But the announcement last week that South African President Nelson Mandela would personally attend the announcement might provide a hot outsider tip: Either Mandela is risking an humiliating photo op when Cape Town loses ? or he knows something the smart money doesn...
...when the army stepped in to nullify them. Since then, about 60,000 people have been killed in a campaign intended to press the government into accepting Islamic rule. There's a reason we don't read and see more from Algeria ? the fundamentalists are waging a smart war. Top of their hit list: local and foreign journalists...
...following its quadruple-platinum album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1994), Oasis is back with a new, louder album, Be Here Now, which should make marketing waves on both sides of the Atlantic. Be Here Now is not a particularly smart or involving album, but then neither was Morning Glory. That previous album's charms consisted of four sprightly, tuneful songs--including Don't Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall--and a lot of latter-day Beatle-ish attitude. The members of Oasis, led by volatile singer Liam Gallagher and his songwriting, guitar-playing brother Noel, cut their hair...
...Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) paces edgily on a deserted New York City subway platform. A brilliant scientist who has recently used genetic engineering to eradicate an epidemic, Susan is not smart enough to realize she's in a horror movie and ought to be wary of approaching a tall, hooded stranger to ask the time. The stranger turns and reveals its hideous face--ewwww, a killer cockroach! It enfolds Susan in its great wings and flies off into the subway's dank underworld...