Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made some "smart tactical choices," Glass said, including tackling only one area at a time--writing, then reading and then science and math--and allowing teachers to choose whether they wanted to participate in the reform efforts...
...anxiety over Medicare has hardly gone unnoticed by the powerful American Association of Retired Persons. The A.A.R.P. has so far had little to say about the G.O.P.'s Medicare plans, including provisions that would raise monthly premiums from $46.10 to about $87 by 2002, largely because party leaders were smart enough to consult the organization as they were drafting the proposal. But now that the cuts are on the table, the A.A.R.P. is expected to launch attack ads as early as this week. The A.A.R.P. assault would come on top of the mini one launched last week by the American...
...picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will renew Travolta's Oscar eligibility...
However, the Greek Chorus, F. Murray Abraham in particular, shines as one of the film's few genuinely funny elements. They get the smart and sassy lines, and use them to their full effect, without overkill. If only the chorus was featured more throughout the movie, it just might be worth it to sit through everyone else's mudanity...
This is not just a matter of recapturing the look of postwar Los Angeles or making an attractive figure of a smart, righteous loner. It requires as well a taste for labyrinthine plotting (and a confidence that the audience will pay close attention to it despite the lack of car chases and explosions); a gift for bizarre, boldly stated characterizations (often enough hinting at sexual kinks); and, most important, a nose for social nuance...