Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, Bush, who won 31% of Jewish votes in 1988, plugs along. If ever he doubts that good policy is sometimes smart politics, he should recall history. Shortly before the 1956 election, Eisenhower took Egypt's side in the Suez Canal dispute. He warned Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion "not ((to)) make any grave mistake based upon ((your)) belief that winning a domestic election is as important to us as preserving the peace." Ike won in a landslide and captured 40% of the Jewish vote, still the high-water mark for a Republican. If today's peace talks produce...
...find a house with look-the-other-way parents, there's always an illegal club. In Los Angeles a smart young promoter type will locate a vacant building that can be broken into for a one-night stand, hire a pal with a good sound system to put together dance tracks and serve as deejay, and then hand out flyers urging kids to call a certain number if they want to party at a "major rager." An hour before show time, the organizer tapes an answering-machine message telling customers the location. Of course the club promoters play it safe...
...were the smart ones, and they wanted to hear from the smart ones," said Blout, who played a key role in bringing about the condom distribution policy during her sophomore year...
...that the best thing about Bugsy, the elegantly made, wickedly perverse and very smart new movie about the last years of Siegel's life, is that you don't have to impose any of these interpretations on it. Indeed, it suggests most of them -- and more besides. Producer-star Warren Beatty, whose long-cherished brainstorm the film was, is on to all the implications of the story, including its metaphors for moderns, and so are his creative associates...
...time Hollywood as sleek, hard and distracted by its own overnight success. The whole town acts like an overhandsome star -- rather like Bugsy's friend George Raft (whom Joe Mantegna plays a little too kindly in the film) -- a dumb guy who thinks his prosperity proves that he's smart...