Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's no Vegas line yet, but the smart money says the odds aren't good. There have been seven previous attempts to create a league to take on the NFL. Six of them failed -- remember the WFL? the USFL? The one that succeeded, the American Football League, did so by merging with...
...case now goes to court, which, one suspects, was where Klein expected to end up all along. Bill Gates showed last week that he's too smart to cause storm clouds over relative trivia. But as anyone even remotely conversant with the Microsoft chairman's long and combative career well knows, he's also too tough to mortgage his company's future for blue skies today...
...better serve his clients. "You've got to kill the customer with kindness," says Halliday. "In a word: service. Do things differently this year." In the current economic climate, the hospitality industry is finding that it takes more than a mint on the pillow to keep customers coming back. Smart travelers will learn that the way to find out the best deals is, above...
...course, there's always Harry Connick Jr., the smart-dressing, piano-playing New Orleans singer who is Sinatra's most obvious disciple. On his exhilaratingly retro 1989 sound track When Harry Met Sally, Connick displayed flashes of Sinatra's golden tones and a dash of his lush romanticism. You could almost imagine the bobby soxers. In the forthcoming movie Hope Floats, Connick even acts a bit like Sinatra, playing a regular Joe with a tough-guy exterior and a sad, needy heart...
Though it got little respect from the critics, Family Matters was in fact the most delightfully outre comedy on TV, an anything-goes farce with good lowbrow gag writing and snatches of smart parody. But just try to say goodbye. The show's producers, reportedly miffed at CBS, aren't talking to the press. White, 21, who is finishing classes at UCLA and said to be writing screenplays, is incommunicado as well. All are getting ready, no doubt, for the last episode of Seinfeld...