Word: smarting
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...some eyes, the show was too hot, or maybe too smart. In Variety, a reviewer of ?It?s a Problem? pegged the show as ?much too cerebral for a mid-morning spotting, and it?s doubtful if the program can win a viewing audience composed mainly of housewives who?ve got the day?s cleaning and shopping worries ahead of them.? Yet Phyllis was clairvoyant about issue-oriented daytime TV. She told the Washington Post: ?Women want to hear about other problems besides how to fix flowers in a pot.? Jack Gould, the TV critic for the Times, agreed...
...that require more decision making. Even Bush partisans aren't sure about the agenda's appeal. "I'm not spinning you," insists a Bush adviser after pitching the plan. "Much." Indeed, Kerry's frontal assault on Social Security privatization in his acceptance speech signaled that the Democrats think the smart money is on dismissing Bush's vision of an "ownership society" as a Darwinian world in which seniors and the middle class can lose everything to the vagaries of the market...
...Timothy Moore, executive vice president of Alere Medical, which produces the smart scales that Young and more than 10,000 other patients are using, says that almost any vital sign could, in theory, be monitored from home. But, he warns, that might not always make good medical sense. He advises against performing electrocardiograms remotely, for example, and although he acknowledges that remote monitoring of blood-sugar levels and diabetic ulcers on the skin may have real value, he points out that there are no truly independent studies that establish the value of home testing for diabetes or asthma...
...hamburgers, hotdogs and small talk about crew in all of its obsessive glory. What I instead got was a rather harsh lesson about the amount of bitterness, anger and envy that word “Harvard” can conjure up, and a jolting reminder that people, even very smart well educated people, are often totally irrational...
...inspired a lot of new authors, whose books will appear in time for the show's second season. That doesn't include Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, whose publicist says she's working on a book that will be "completely unrelated" to her Apprentice notoriety. Given the competition, that might be smart. --By Jonathan Rick...