Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just surgical strikes, Israel's army commanders proudly proclaimed as they showed off video images of smart bombs intersecting cross hairs. This little war against Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon was only a high-tech blitz on a bunch of terrorists, targeting specific buildings and vehicles hiding the enemy, avoiding nasty civilian casualties. In fact, two ambulances had been hit, three power plants had been damaged, and several hundred Lebanese, most of them noncombatants, had been killed or wounded. Still, for the first seven days, Israelis applauded the offensive, and much of the world tolerated it. But even the vaunted Israeli...
Despite the seven-year difference in their ages, Theodore and David Kaczynski are brothers with a lot in common. Everyone who knows them offers the same descriptions: smart, introspective, quiet. They went to Ivy League schools but didn't use their prestigious degrees to chase the almighty dollar. They both sought solitude in remote parts of the country, where they tried to shed whatever stood between them and the natural world. Both of them appear to have compelling notions about justice. Ted's may have led him to murder. David's led him to turn his brother over...
...David demonstrated a gift for human contact. Though not much of an athlete, he joined the other high school faculty for Thursday-night basketball games. "You could talk to Dave about anything," says Jim West, a junior high math teacher. "We used to kid him about being so smart, and he'd say his brother was so much smarter that he had a hard time talking to him. That was hard to imagine...
Born in Chicago in 1942, son of a Polish sausagemaker, Kaczynski was standout smart from childhood. His 89-year-old aunt told the Daily Southtown newspaper in Chicago that his parents were so intent on their son's academic success that they turned him into a "snob." Wanda would take her Theodore to Chicago art museums when he was a baby hoping to stimulate his intellect. "I used to tell her," the aunt said, "'Wanda, the boy is too young. He isn't learning anything.' Later she would tell me [when he was doing well in school...
These films are about upsetting decorum, not scaring the wits out of you. But Primal Fear at least offers the reliable pleasure of watching Richard Gere succumb to the sin of pride. He's awfully good at playing sinuous, cynical men who are just a little too smart for their own good. In this case he's Martin Vail, a media-mad defense attorney in Chicago, who takes on--mostly for publicity--the case of a young man accused of murdering the city's beloved Catholic archbishop. Before he's through, Martin uncovers civic corruption, some hanky-panky with...