Word: smart
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...check Webster's. ghee: n. 1. A buttery milk concoction popular in Indian households 2. The sound one makes when they accidentally turn on the shower tap to hot, scalding water, i.e. "Gheeeeeeeee!" I'm assuming you're talking about the second one, Moop. And no, I'm too smart to do something like that...
...bayou Tuesday night, it's a safe bet that more than a few porch-dwellers were shaking their heads at the thought of this Gulliver finally succumbing to the little men of the system. "A lot of people were surprised that Edwin, who has always been so smart, let them get so much information on him," Bernie R. Pinsonat, a Baton Rouge pollster, told the New York Times. "They had tapes in his office, tapes in his house, and they obviously nailed him. Regardless of what happens from here...
...that's where November comes in. "Clinton is making the case that a weakened President, which Clinton would very much be if he loses this, would be bad for Democrats' hopes of recapturing Congress," Branegan says. "A lot of Big Labor's national leaders are listening to that." Smart money right now: A very close vote swings Clinton's way. Just think of what that'll do for Henry Kissinger's legacy...
...upcoming premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...
...smart, you know. She's the smarter one of the two. And I find that endearing. I always love characters that have the humor and the sadness. It comes out best in that dinner party scene - she has that obsession with being involved with the charities. It's not, "I want to be on the board," it's "I want to be a patron." I like people who know who they are because I'm obsessed with class - you know because I'm from England. There's not such an obvious class system here - though there does seem...