Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administrators to change the requirement for professors and tenure? Or is it up to professors to get a reality check and realize that they are simply human-smart humans, of course-and not superheroes? A combination of both efforts would be really nice. Maybe it would have been better if we didn't go to Harvard, but instead to a normal college, where you can get a pretty good education and where the professors have the time and the heart to care more for their students than for how many times they can see their name in the paper...
...moguldom, Frank Biondi has always been the rare bird: a quiet one. As the president and CEO of Viacom--the conglomerate that owns the Showtime and mtv cable networks, Simon & Schuster publishing, the Blockbuster video chain and Paramount's movie and TV empire--he has been regarded as a smart, low-key executive who stresses teamwork over autocratic rule. But being a team player is not always an asset when the reigning autocrat--in this case, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone--wants to run the show. Last week, in a move that surprised practically everyone, Biondi was fired...
SKIERS KNOW THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE AN ice scraper cutting through the glaze on a windshield, only it gets louder and louder, and it is accompanied by the whoops and wails of the truly possessed. Upon hearing it, the smart skier moves off to the side of the trail. He or she knows that an avalanche of snowboarders is coming...
...main thing for Welles, beyond the games, was the work. He goaded his newcomer cast and ace cinematographer Gregg Toland into playing the script's long scenes with few cuts; the audience, he figured, would be smart enough to find the drama without the nudging of montage. He kept the film secret from studio brass. But he couldn't keep Kane from Hearst. Mank couldn't, anyway. He handed the script to Charles Lederer, who was both Davies' nephew and the new husband of Welles' ex-wife. It came back annotated by Hearst's lawyers. And that was just...
Civil libertarians harrumph about "electronic sweatshops," and the AFL-CIO aims to prove that the law violates Illinois' bill of rights, which guards against "interceptions of communications by eavesdropping devices." Meantime, smart workers might do best to stew in silence. Grrrr...