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...SUNDAY-NIGHT LINEUP Everyone talks about NBC and Thursday, but the best night for television right now is Sunday, when you can watch The Simpsons, King of the Hill and The X-Files all in a row on Fox. The Simpsons is still the cleverest comedy on TV, and King of the Hill creates a world with far more specificity than any live-action sitcom. Both are smarter, funnier and, in fact, more human than Friends or Seinfeld. Meanwhile, The X-Files draws from a bottomless well of inspiration. Two cartoons and a sci-fi show--why are these better...
...Mexico from the U.S. "They're bringing in tons of dope," says Thomas Constantine of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "There's no reason they can't take tons of money back the same way, in bulk cash." Of all the Mexican drug barons, Garcia Abrego was probably the cleverest at figuring out ways to introduce such tons of cash into the financial system without drawing attention to their source...
...penchant for understatement may help explain his ability to satisfy so wide an audience. He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo. He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...
...part the clarity of Hawkins vision of that highway, and how video games fit on it, that made him so attractive to investors -- and to more than 350 of the cleverest video-game designers in the business. His early backers include AT&T, Time Warner and Matsushita (which owns Panasonic and Universal, one of the biggest Hollywood studios...
...true mastermind, Malkovich's character seems to be the cleverest person on the screen, which forces us to see Horrigan as someone definitely past his prime. Booth is a deep villain who sees meaning to what he's doing and attacks Eastwood's character psychologically. As a source of suspense, Malkovich's character is limitless, especially with the phone close-ups and chase scenes designed by director Wolfgang Peterson...