Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said, he attached the word "alleged" to every event of religious significance, as in "the alleged Crucifixion" or "the alleged parting of the Red Sea." The tactic never worked. "[The editors] just crossed it out," Trillin confesses. "If there was anything they had had experience with, it was smart-aleck writers...
...Corrao. Disconcerting words from a TV executive. But at the same time, it should be understood that sketch comedy has become increasingly difficult to produce. What does it mean to produce alternative comedy when mainstream pop culture has become so self-mocking? When Miller Lite commercials do smart send-ups of kung fu movies, when sitcoms like Ned and Stacey make jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series...
Harvard is a funny place. So many smart people walking around and so little common sense. Buildings razed and rebuilt, houses re-shuffled, lawns re-sodded, as though Harvard were something more than a collection of bricks and books, as though Harvard itself might die and be born again...
Even aside from the human consideration of the University for its workers, the co-payment cap is just smart business sense for Harvard. We should do everything we can to encourage people to visit their doctors instead of forcing them to jump through a series of expensive hoops just to stay healthy. While many economists claim that Americans overuse the medical system, concern for Harvard employees should outweigh the possible moral hazard...
...really act in a movie like this; you can only look swell and play attitudes, which everybody here does. The basic trouble with The Juror is that like a lot of movies these days, it is narratively arrogant. Its creators either think they're so smart they can distract us from whopping elisions in their story line--there's a lot of murky stylishness in the film's look--or believe we're so stupid that we won't notice them. But as those trailers about the movie theater's sound system keep reminding us, "The Audience is Listening." Watching...