Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Batman, this comic-book movie is anything but comic; every plangent chord of Danny Elfman's splendid pop-Wagnerian score underlines the scientist's twisted nobility. Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene. And he knows how to give resonance to a tinny plot: by portraying a character so powerful and warped that he is urban America's perfect patron saint...
...must be really smart," Fred says...
Once known for their wealth of fine sherry and smart suits, recent grad student-professor schmooze sessions seem to have taken a turn toward light wine and casual dress...
...equally hard to understand Ford's owlish performance as Sabich. He is supposed to be a smart, aggressive lawyer, tops at his trade. But Ford is mostly dull and inward looking, at best cranky where he should be vigorous and resourceful. There are some excellent things in Presumed Innocent: Scacchi's erotic heat as she lures Sabich into adultery; Paul Winfield's sardonic knowingness as he presides over Sabich's trial; Brian Dennehy's deadly impassivity as he betrays a friend to protect his career. Each anatomizes a subspecies of the political animal with finely observed accuracy. Each gives...
Such a public personality is especially vulnerable to the kind of failed smart-guy trick the change on tax policy represents. Bush cannot say that as a longtime antitax ideologue he has nevertheless decided to take one step back in order to go two steps forward. He does not have the cushion of principle to fall back on. All he had was a pledge, and the character of a man who kept his pledges. Now he has welshed on the pledge and is in danger of losing the character...