Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech to the Time-Life Alumni Society several years ago, Jim Gaines, then TIME's managing editor, said, "What is absolutely necessary, what we will perish without, is an atmosphere that feels like home to expressive, smart, emphatic and incandescent people." For 20 years Time Inc. has been home to the expressive, smart, emphatic and incandescent Jim Gaines. Most recently Time Inc.'s corporate editor, Jim was the first person ever to serve as managing editor of three of our titles--PEOPLE, LIFE and TIME--and wherever he worked, he inspired those around him. Alas, Jim has announced that...
...that the team has won three and tied one in its last four games and is starting to play smart, aggressive hockey, the team's holiday play could keep the Crimson's momentum alive...
...much to ask: none of those on any short list for any of the jobs have a fully developed theory of 21st century policy in their head. Even if they did, that might not be desirable in an era with no single coherent threat and a need instead for smart, flexible, case-by-case solutions...
...movies have catapulted catchphrases before--Get Smart launched Would you believe...? and Sorry about that into nationwide use in the 1970s--but this newer slang is different. It is supposed to confer upon its users an edge, sometimes a comedic but always a faintly combative edge. The era of Saturday Night Live that dished out Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from...
...played by very competent actors. Streisand herself plays Rose Morgan, an English professor at Columbia who knows the name of every single student in her 400 person lecture, and appears to be teaching a class entitled "My Personal Life 101." Rose is obviously a delicate flower indeed, witty and smart but resigned to the fact that she is just not that pretty, especially in comparison to her deliciously catty mother Hannah (Lauren Bacall) and sister Claire (Mimi Rogers). A cross between a hopeless romantic and a mental case, Rose cancels all her dates with the weirdos who pursue...