Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...whole, “German Art of the 1980s” displays a sly intelligence, making the little show of big loans a small, smart and highly recommended exhibition...
...work. However, a decade ago, the spotlight was firmly fixed on Virginia chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her small circle of friends. Cornwell, in the first person, relayed Scarpetta’s fascinating observations and judgments. Cornwell gave us the world through the eyes of a smart, powerful woman chafing against the profoundly masculine and often misogynistic law enforcement culture...
...Scarpetta, a fleshed-out character who inspires care and concern. The hero is the disappointingly empty Massachusetts state police investigator Winston Garano. He is handsome, a sharp dresser, and a rescuer of abused dogs, but the novella is too short and scattered to make him more than just a smart, pretty face...
...doesn’t have time to articulate fully this thought, instead losing her balance and falling into the dewy grass.I want to be honest with FM’s audience: I’m no fan of theocratic excess, but when I encounter such examples of well-dressed, smart people behaving badly, I silently wonder to myself, where are the Saudi religious police when you need them? Some will call this attitude Puritanical, a word that sounds nastier than it should, and will boldly defend students’ “right”—the most...
...Once again, though, people slowly but surely got smart. The World Wide Web Consortium, the international organization that sets standards for the Web, came up with guidelines for making a website accessible to the disabled. They included using prominent headings on the site, putting invisible alt-text - it's what causes messages to pop up when you move a cursor over an image - in graphics, and allowing functions to be controlled by keystrokes rather than just mouse clicks. Many companies followed the guidelines, allowing Sexton and his peers to use software like JAWS for translating the websites into spoken words...