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Word: smarts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tried to push the Harvard Law thing, but she already knew all that. "I know he's smart. I don't think he's a dummy like Bush," she said. And Obama's perceived dovishness on Israel didn't concern her. If anything, she found McCain's foreign policy too aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swing Voter | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...That's a worry, they say, as voters' attention has shifted away from the war in Iraq to gas prices and job losses. And Obama at times has seemed to play into McCain's new script. Reporters have not forgotten that someone inside his campaign authorized--or wasn't smart enough to stop--Obama's appearance at a podium with an altered version of the presidential seal inscribed with Obama's campaign motto. And for all Obama's talk about his small-donor base, his campaign recently announced a $10,000-a-head fund raiser in September to be hosted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New McCain | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...clearly not on African Americans; it's on the actor's belief that he can play anyone.) But Lazarus and the others out there in the jungle don't evolve or devolve; they are figures from an SNL skit or the director's own very smart Ben Stiller Show back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...food and sell them to the rich. Swift was not promoting cannibalism or infanticide: he thought his audience would understand the absurdity of such ludicrous ideas. Does the New Yorker really believe Obama is a Muslim extremist and his wife a terrorist? No, but the editors thought Americans were smart enough to interpret the utter ridiculousness as an exaggeration - one that fits well into this increasingly overdramatic presidential campaign. Lauren Tighe, SAGINAW, MICH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Aid Afghanistan | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...their verbal wit scant; at times a scene revs to its climax and, instead of issuing some clever deflating retort, the actor will gaze dumbly into the camera, as if this were a rough cut, with the punch line to be edited in later. To camouflage the dearth of smart dialogue, Fraser and Bello indulge in sheepish smiling and sweet preening; the film's working title might have been Indiana's Clones and the Dimple of Tomb. Fraser and Ford do get to run around a lot, and knock out some malefactors, but they are largely occupied staring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Revives The Mummy | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

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