Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that regard he is the opposite of, say, Bill Clinton, who brackets the other end of the baby boom: Gates analytically rigorous and emotionally reserved, the President equally smart but intellectually undisciplined and readily intimate. They played golf on Martha's Vineyard once, and the President, as usual, worked hard at bonding emotionally and being personally charming and intimate. He expressed sorrow about the death of Gates' mother, shared the pain of the recent death of his own mother and gave golfing tips to Melinda. But Gates noticed that Clinton never bore in or showed rigorous curiosity about technological issues...
Brooks doesn't develop his story as richly as he might; some of its incidents are too predictable, and it remains more anecdote than full-scale narrative. But he is, as he was in Modern Romance and Lost in America, a smart, funny observer of our minor domestic anguishes. --By Richard Schickel...
...source for his 1972 debut, Last House on the Left) and kept at it until he was mature enough to imitate himself. Scream, which has won some unaccountably indulgent reviews, is like his self-reverential Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): an idiot-savant movie, knowing but not smart. For viewers who are not scholars of the slasher genre, the latest Craven will seem one more exercise in voyeuristic sadism, an excuse for the torturing of teens in tight sweaters. And that's exactly what this Scream dream...
...Stacey (Fox) Thankfully, this smart sitcom was not the victim of its network's scratch-happy spirit. Now in its second season, the show about mismatched lovebirds in the making has given us a chance to feast on the prodigious comic gifts of Thomas Haden Church, who plays Ned, a voluble adman. If there is a more engagingly comtemptuous character on TV, we haven't come upon...
...major problem in the U.S. Now I realize what it really is: the biggest excuse. I pray that Simpson is forced to answer for his actions in the civil trial and that he can't hide behind tricky lawyers, his charm (now greatly diminished) and the "race card." JOHN SMART Los Angeles...