Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JERSEY Governor Christine Todd Whitman seeks a law saying dealers can sell only "smart" handguns; the bill passes the senate...
What's cool about Mystery Men is that it is what it's about. Expected to underachieve in a season of teen-boy farces, it triumphs by being its smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there. In the opening scene, director Kinka Usher tries to get a Tim Burton flavor of dark comic hipness and blows it; he is flailing even as Mr. Furious does at first. Usher feels his way to the right tempo and tone, and when he finds it he doesn...
...EATING SMART FOR YOUR HEART
...have I been?" she asks in Hello, Old Friend. "Well, that can of worms ain't worth openin'/ Leave it at 'fine.'" But her songs (all of which she wrote or co-wrote) never leave it there; they explore the conversation a smart soul has with herself when she's just said "fine" to her no-longer lover. And Richey's lyrics fill the tense, unspoken spaces with hard truths, wry rear views and a desperate lucidity...
...This was actually a smart way to go for him," says TIME reporter Staci Kramer from St. Louis, where McGwire proceeded to smack his 500th and 501st home runs on Thursday night. "He?s really sick of this story, and of all the attention in general. "If he'd made this announcement at the beginning of the season, every game, every home run, would be a running comparison to last season. This way he gets the message out there without a replay of the added daily distraction that he got during most of the record race." This...