Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood helped by releasing a lot of December movies that few adults wanted to see, let alone talk about. Conversation abhors a vacuum, and The Crying Game has filled it. The picture, shot for a skimpy $5 million, won a Golden Globe nomination for best drama and is a smart-money long shot at Oscar time. But Irish writer-director Neil Jordan, 42, didn't set out to make a bundle, or even a buzz. "I just decided to do what pleases me," he says. "When a film deals with issues of race, terrorism and sex, it would be mangled...
...There is building up in the reality of many Americans a true rage," he said. "They're smart enough to know that there is nothing in America planned for them...
...really think that the Clinton administration sees the power of the youth vote," said James A. Harmon '93-94, president of College Democrats of America. "If Americans under 29 hadn't voted for Clinton he would have lost. It's not just a do-gooder thing. It's a smart thing...
...most were too sickly and feeble to grow. Divorcing one's parents looked big for a week or so, sparking hopes of a real estate boom as 10-year-olds sought their own condos. Menopause mania proved to be a flash, so to speak, in the pan, and "smart drugs" couldn't compete with the far more numerous dumb ones...
...look like we were caving in to Perot's view of the world," says a Clinton adviser. "Also, redoing PPF would have told the constituencies we needed to win that we'd be hard pressed to fund the programs that were attracting them to us. Shutting up was smart politically, and it worked because it was in Bush's interest too. For Bush to scream about our numbers would have forced him to admit that his were wrong also, and that the recovery he kept saying was just around the corner wasn...