If the bouncy songs are particularly smart and irreverent ("Like idiots, we ideate," the group sings early in Act I), that's because both music and lyrics are by William Finn.
"A lot of great reality lives in the gap between what the person thinks about themselves and what other people think about them, and these shows are particularly smart about exploiting that," Mr. Hirschorn said.
June is particularly smart (as are May and September) because the temperature will be perfect and the islands uncrowded.
As responses go, Medvedev's may not have been particularly smart, but the damage so far is not great, either.
But computers eventually got so fast that they no longer needed to be particularly smart to beat humans at games — they could just play out every scenario for the subsequent ten to fifteen moves and choose the best one.
The show has been particularly smart in dramatizing Max's effect on everyone around him: the way his condition has at once divided and united his parents, built tricky bridges with his cousins, forced his sister into a good-girl role, and made his mother, Kristina — who shoulders the task of overseeing Max's therapies — anxious and vigilant.
The group has been particularly smart in their use of Twitter: in less than two months it has amassed over 240,000 followers which, amusingly, means it can launch a DDoS attack simply by tweeting the web address of its next target and waiting for the tsunami of clicks to have the desired effect.
The idea was particularly smart in giving consumers a new spin on the word "refresh," says Jason Baer, creative director at Interbrand, the Omnicom Group -owned brand consultancy in New York.
And when a company I'm involved with does something I think is particularly smart or not so smart, I will point it out here on TechCrunch.
None the less, Spotback is particularly smart, functional and appealing vs the startpages, and that's what I'd use it for if anything.
STEVE: So, uh, I'm not sure that I understand …I understand their logic, at least the way they've rendered it to date, even though I don't think it's particularly smart.
