There's real magic behind all the brainy trickery and an emotional journey on top of the academic quest.
So we got all the brainy stuff [out of the way] during prep for two months, talking, talking, talking, talking, and then by the time we got to the shoot, we could just film.
8 P.M. (11) BEAUTY AND THE GEEK "The Aftermath" In this reunion episode, all the brainy men and gorgeous women return to reflect on their experiences during the series.
Selling ads, after all, is not a business that requires a PhD from Stanford or MIT – in fact, it's so mind-numbingly banal and inelegant that all those brainy scientists on Google's payroll must have an identity crisis every time they realise how their moonshot projects are actually financed.
If this sounds all too brainy for a period traditionally spent with a sherry and the telly, fear not, perhaps we can be political radicals even in our intellectual lethargy.
The novel drops enormous set pieces of free-market oratory upon the "moochers" and "looters" and "college-infected parasites" whose world will soon, thanks to Galt's secret recruitings, be robbed of all the brainy enterprise it needs in order to run.
Mr Baricco never makes his character convincing and readers are soon left to wonder if he is so brainy after all.
Three years later, he joined the C.I.A. and moved to Washington, because, he said, "I wanted a job where I could be a cold warrior," adding, "where you can be a brainy, dark weirdo and do all kinds of fascinating crazy stuff".
The "Turing test," designed to gauge the capacity of computers to fake human intelligence, provides a pretty good over-all metaphor for the brainy poetics of "Ghosts in the Machine".
