Word: smartness
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...attracts writers to the pregnancy plot), this is prime-time sitcom fodder. Oscar and Felix; Kate and Angie. I?m not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format?s routine progressions - opposites not only attract, they learn from each other - only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling. Hitting familiar buttons isn?t a sin if the exercise is carried off expertly, as it is here. And the two stars, deprived of the opportunity for girlish giggling they took undue advantage of as SNL?s Weekend Update anchors, relax into their characters, give them...
...Angie, she could be a Conshohocken crumpet, the idiot spawn of two siblings, the ramshackle hovel in which Kate?s baby is imprisoned. Instead, she?s spirited, resourceful and crafty of mouth, always ready to parry an accusation with some counterfeit common sense. She?s also smart enough to overcome the garbage education daytime TV has saddled her with. The meeting of disparate souls brings with it the inevitable apology swap. Kate: ?I?m sorry I called you stupid.? Angie: ?I?m sorry I farted into your purse...
...supposed to tell my two young children after reading about the agrifuels debacle? "Kids, we've probably got about five to ten years left. Don't worry about the environment - it's too late"? You report that we are still mowing down precious jungle in 2008. Monkeys are smart enough not to do that. If deforestation continues at this rate, then I'd like to register a word - anthropocide: to knowingly eliminate the human species. Marshall Rowe, Merewether, New South Wales...
...Galactica” is a really wonderful show. “Battlestar” is the story of a small group of humans who survive a nuclear holocaust perpetuated by robots known as the Cylons. In the traditional vein of human-robot relations, we built them, they got too smart, and they took over. Even more eerily, some of them are now built to look just like humans, and it’s difficult to tell them apart from the real thing, making the conflict all the more fraught. The surviving dregs of humanity—including military commander William...
...light of Bill Buckley's passing, who are the remaining intellectual giants in modern American conservatism? -Orlando Gutierrez, BostonThere are a lot of very, very smart conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Michael Novak [and] George Weigal. There are a lot of very thoughtful advocates of what I would call a serious conservatism, by which I mean the preservation of the traditions of freedom and the understanding of the realities within which you have to make decisions...