Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physics course for which I had no background and found out my mistake too late to drop the class. Worse still, I had proudly insisted on taking five classes because the administrator in charge of transfer students had contemptuously told me that no transfer student was smart enough to do this. Yep, I was sunk...
...everyone's idea of gay liberation is a magazine modishly modeled on Vogue or GQ, albeit with same-sex couples parading fashions and lesbians fantasizing about their ideal spa. But those willing to set aside political correctness for gossipy profiles, moody travel pieces and smart reviews of gay-tinged pop culture -- along with pieces about abortion, aids and activism -- can now look forward to the quarterly publication...
...looked as if she'd been shot." Not for long. After a weekend of consulting with her husband, she called back and said, in a typical old-Mary locution, "I think we have reason to talk." The new Mary emerged quickly. Out went the pinstripe wardrobe. In came smart suits, always by Irish designers. A stylist gave her a fashionable haircut, and she began to apply some makeup. Cynical? Not in her view. "I felt it was a way to project that I was serious about the campaign," she says, "and that had its own effect. I saw myself less...
...Spock is responsible for a whole generation of spoiled brats, it was Bill Gaines who propelled baby-boomer smart-aleckism to giddy new heights. Long before the Nickelodeon cable channel (whose sensibility is significantly Mad-derived), before Father Knows Best seemed campy, before every other ninth- grader wore sideburns and shades, Gaines' magazine was the only place for children to have an uncensored glimpse behind the perky facade of '50s bourgeois life. It was where they could get clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere...
Wilson Phillips, gearing up for their first U.S. tour as headliners this summer, were smart enough to realize they couldn't make a career out of syrupy ballads devoted to young love even if they are all still in their early 20s. They have unabashedly gone out on a limb with this impressive follow-up album. They seem in no danger of tumbling...