Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With a smart cast and a chic patina, Ron Howard's The Paper reprises this theme, less to celebrate old times than to offer a skeptical perspective on career men and women. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), metro editor for the Sun, a New York City tabloid, has to worry about a local race crime -- or is it a mob rubout? -- on a day when he should be thinking about his pregnant, ex-reporter wife (Marisa Tomei) and the cushier job she wants him to take at an uptown daily. There are clever doses of cynicism and office politicking...
...emerge from the dressing room, the good half of your personality having overcome the bad, you pay for your purchases with a sense of pride. You smart shopper, you. As the bag says, "I just got a bargain...
...John Malkovich, because he's handsome and agreat actor, and has a smart wife of his own agegroup instead of some little floozy...
...smart students at Harvard Law School realize that the 1960's are over, and that there are better methods for effecting change, such as working within existing channels. Shelby Steele, a conservative Black professor, draws a distinction between "bargainers" and "challengers." The former work together with the rest of society to get what they want. The latter play on white guilt complexes to secure their ridiculous demands...
...credibility of the successful middle-aged yuppies who have no more pressing concerns than the specter of bad coffee or bad regulation. Says Adweek's Barbara Lippert: "Harry and Louise are the perfect 'muppies,' with a plumped, overstuffed existence, telling other people that if they make similarly smart choices they too can have a beautiful life." Oddly enough, the admakers have no concern for the annoyance some viewers might feel at the sight of this self-satisfied couple who pay their bills on time and floss every day. Lippert says it doesn't matter how irritating they...