Word: supersmart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question why we've never been defeated by this little den of evil that rests on our shores, but in case someone missed it, any federal agency that trains any group of killing machines is evil. The Diplomatic Security Service messed up and picked the wrong guy, the supersmart guy to take the fall for them, this time, like always. The man they frame is of course not only super-human, but well supplied with random friends, the Starbucks waitress and this agent that moonlights as a bouncer at Any-club USA, friends who are willing to go the distance...
...honorees are the Indiana Jones and Star Wars sagas. In a prologue set in 1928, archaeologists in Egypt uncover a large metallic ring. Fifty years later, Daniel Jackson (James Spader), a nerdy but stalwart linguist, deciphers the ring's hieroglyphics. They suggest it was left behind centuries ago by supersmart aliens (oh, hi there, 2001). By twiddling a few dials, scientists set the ring humming, and Jackson and a quarrelsome combat team led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (a glum Kurt Russell) are transported to a galaxy far, far away...
...this is a recovery, why do we feel so bad? Because downsizing and global competition are destroying our jobs. Tomorrow's workers will have to be supersmart and ready to switch careers...
NEXT WAVE/NEXT DOOR. The Brooklyn Academy of Music's supersmart, avant-garde Next Wave Festival presents four theater and dance troupes from Montreal, all of them attuned to BAM's exploration of new forces in art. Through...