Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are a lot of beautiful ladies on thesecampus's and very smart too," Chan added...
Entertainment executives saw MCA as a smart buy for the 21st century: surely there are rosier prospects for software than for spirits. But Bronfman wasn't selling his whiskey interests; he was giving up on a company with a strong present (Du Pont stock accounted for nearly 70% of Seagram's pretax profits last year) and a robust future. Unsurprisingly, Wall Street greeted both the Du Pont sale and the MCA negotiations with derision. On Friday Moody's Investors Service announced that it was considering "the possible downgrade" of Seagram's debt. Seagram stock dropped nearly 17% during the week...
Designers who have traditionally followed their own muse, adjusting only lightly to the headline trends, are looking especially smart. Christian Lacroix creates with his head in the past-the past of the French masterpieces in the Louvre. To some women his work is overdecorated, but his clothes are endless reveries on color executed in minute detail, such as Lesage embroidery, usually found only in handmade costumes. Similarly, Japan's Issey Miyake, who has never cared a whit about hemlines or gold chains, played a gentle counterpoint to the mainstream with radiant fabrics and a magicianly way with material that amounted...
...least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little guide to big-time journalism by Thomas Griffith, a former foreign editor of TIME and editor of LIFE...
...film is creepy fun and deeply noir. In smart, cynical snarls, William Holden tears off the language of a hungry young writer who can't hold tight enough to his dreams. Joe Gillis' luck seems to be on the upswing when fate sends him straight into the "white elephant" palace of an aging silent film star. "You used to be big," he tells her, dimly remembering the name. "I am big," she replies, "It's the pictures that got small...