She never got a college education even though she was smart as a whip.

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"He was full of fun and he was smart as a whip, " added the actor.

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Giffords is also smart-as-a-whip and a fierce advocate of developing solar power and other clean-tech jobs, especially in her sun-drenched southern Arizona district.

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He arrives like a breath of fresh air at the home of his sister and her family which includes his niece, Charlotte (Teresa Wright), also nicknamed Charlie, a whip-smart recent high-school graduate who falls in love with him even as her own suspicions are raised.

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