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...risibly implausible, your basic botch. In The Canterville Ghost (1944), Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features, it might be the climax to Two Smart People (1946), where gunzel Elisha Cook, Jr., falls dead off a balcony during Mardi Gras and lands on a firemen's cloth hoop held by the crowd of revelers, who gaily keep bouncing the corpse into the air. You could take that as a metaphor for Dassin's years...
...spent on preparing the world for the health impacts of climate change, the priority should be adapting our public health system to a warmer world, versus spending on carbon mitigation. Global warming to some degree will be inevitable - but human suffering needn't be, if we're smart enough to prepare...
...other college, this kind of crackdown would be met with moping, retaliatory alcohol abuse, keg-laden protests, and general dissatisfaction. But this is Harvard, a college full of students smart enough to rationalize just about anything. With new regulations looming, our peers have clung to what scant justifications for laxity they can find...
...these guys are hustlers but they’re not smart,” he says before going back to doling out his promotional prophylactics...
...mortgage-lending industry had spent $185 million on lobbying over the past decade, and Big Pharma had spent $1 billion. He gave comprehensive answers about trade, immigration and military procurement. He was detailed but never dull. He was, in fact, quite impressive - another sign that this is a candidate smart and supple enough to grow and adapt - even though the substance was buried by media accounts of his transparent common-man photo ops: bowling, watching the NCAA tournament in a bar, drinking Pennsylvania's legendary Yuengling beer...