Imagine that the mother in "Black Swan" was, instead, a father — one who had been widowed due to his late wife's adultery and who, with a moralistic grip, held his smart but damaged daughter in a state of ignorant inexperience; imagine that, after his daughter's death, he blamed the director under whose sway she fell and took his sinister, relentless revenge.
(When she was anorexic, she says, her mother told her: "Good for you! Keep going!" Yes, I know I promised not to do that. I'm sorry.) Anyone who has spent time in Park Avenue dining rooms will probably have met someone much like Tibby, as Ms. Baranski portrays her: a woman who, despite a life devoted principally to clothes and menus, is too smart, too damaged and too valiant to be dismissed.
Bush and Quayle were somewhat aware that being perceived as not very smart would damage their political standing.
This isn't just a matter of letting gifted children perform at their highest level, it's a matter of giving special-needs students what they need before they become damaged — smart kids without stimulation turn their energies elsewhere, sometimes in destructive or self-destructive ways.
The other bit of feedback I heard was that these posts weren't thoughtful, or smart or somehow damaged the TechCrunch brand because they used swearing or weren't 100% positive.
Meeting Robert Crumb's talented, smart and profoundly damaged family was what made him feel an obligation to create the film that bared his friend's name not because he considered Crumb to be "one of the great artists of our time" (which he does).
More importantly, multi-tasking has gotten smarter without damaging battery life, Apple claims.
It is also a flawed law that, without smart fixes, will damage the well-being of millions of middle class Americans.
Make no mistake, these are damaged people -- once smart, free-thinking, well-respected individuals now broken down to think and act like a vicious, rotten herd.
This is a smart, addictive novel about warped affinities – broken, damaged souls finding each other and making mayhem.
