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Word: smartly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nearly everyone I talk to is spitting angry or near tears with grief. Or both," writes Susan Ager in Friday's Detroit Free Press. "No one can imagine how such a smart man, with so much to lose, could be such an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America in Shock | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

...Cher were broke in 1969, so Bono remade them into a nightclub act of kitsch hippiedom. By 1971 they were starring in the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, the CBS variety show that brought a jokey, mass-market, safe feminism to TV as Sonny played emasculated buffoon to Cher's smart aleck. It was all his idea. As Cher said during her astonishing funeral oration last week, "He had the confidence to be the butt of the joke because he created the joke." But he was also in charge of the joke. The show ended in 1974 when Cher left Sonny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sonny Side of Life: SONNY BONO (1935-1998) | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...thing about fact-based movies; they sure beat reading all those books. So get comfortable. Get smart. And don't forget to rewind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Potato | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

Michael's friends mourned him as a smart, hardworking, bighearted man who, had he died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero. He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston. He spent much of his life doing generous things, but just enough doing reckless things to join the long index of scandals and self-destruction in untold Kennedy histories to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Family: Tragedy Strikes Again | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...PHONE MESSAGE Aired 2/13/91. Jerry loses a girlfriend--one of dozens--for a slim reason: she likes Dockers commercials. The early shows are smart about relationships; even if these people are neurotic, you really do want them for friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Forgetting Nothing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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