Word: smartly
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After reading your article on ``smart cars'' [Business, Feb. 6], I am furious! Engineers are trying to make cars idiot-proof no-brainers to drive. What is needed, instead, is to get the idiots off the road and onto public transportation, where they cannot injure anyone. Most ``accidents'' occur because people do not pay full attention to their driving. People drive while reading, shaving and using car phones. People change lanes without looking or signaling. Hazards can appear in seconds, and full attention is essential to avoiding tragedy. Many so-called accidents are really criminal negligence. People need to have...
Together, the Brady family creates moments of incredible comedy. Mr. Brady delivers stupid speeches and Alice (Henriette Mantel) worries over her relationship with Sam the Butcher (David Graf). The drunken, horny Mrs. Ditmeyer (Jean Smart), always trying to get the Brady men to "mow" her "lawn," is the only non-Brady character who deserves equal accolades...
Clinton is smart, and a good listener. Even when he runs for student government at Georgetown University, and seems a bit slick for a campus politician, he is far more thoughtful, professional and sympathetic than any recent Harvard Undergraduate Council candidate. At Georgetown, he also gets a prominent government job working for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. There Clinton, a character who had accepted rules without challenging them, senses forces that lead him to rebellion and reverses his support for the Vietnam...
...intelligent types and should be judged on our gray matter, not our hot pink bustiers. It's legitimate to focus on more cerebral things and perhaps a bit impractical to trek off to the Science Center in a fluff of crepede-chine and sequins. But being smart means knowing a lot About a lot. And if you don't know Barneys from a purple dinosaur, you're ignoring something that matters...
Remember the urban legend in which the response "Why not?" to the philosophical query "Why?" earned some smart-ass an A? When someone attacks you with the ridiculous question, "Why fashion?", do as I do and quip back the correct three-word response: "Why not, darling...