Word: presciently
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...Neill's "The Emperor Jones." He played Joe and sang "Ol' Man River" in stage and film versions of "Show Boat." He was a star in American and British movies, a magnetic concert basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...
...makes have spurred the NBA to move in a better direction in television, marketing, ticket pricing. He's in the forefront." And while NBA commissioner David Stern has levied huge fines against Cuban, Stern says, "we've had open and good discussions about refereeing." He adds, "Mark very presciently focused on the whole issue of audiocasting on the Internet, and it would not surprise me if his HDTV venture wasn't equally prescient...
...make a mistake? By pulling money out of her 401(k) when the market was tanking? Some might call her prescient. "To Gen Xers, what looks like common knowledge--that you leave your 401(k) alone--is absurd," says author Tulgan. "They think: I don't know about the future. But I know about now. And the money's right there. I'm going to bet it on myself...
...album chart, bottoming out at 108 in August 2001. But in the months after 9/11, as people looked for comfort, escape or both, the album picked up momentum, rising as high as 25 after the Super Bowl, in its 67th week of release. The album is not prescient, just elastic. On Walk On, the album's best track, Bono sings, "I know it aches/And your heart it breaks/And you can only take so much/Walk on." And on Peace on Earth, he mourns, "Sick of sorrow/I'm sick of the pain/I'm sick of hearing again and again/That there's gonna...
...album chart, bottoming out at 108 in August 2001. But in the months after 9/11, as people looked for comfort, escape or both, the album picked up momentum, rising as high as 25 after the Super Bowl, in its 67th week of release. The album is not prescient, just elastic. On Walk On, the album's best track, Bono sings, "I know it aches/ And your heart it breaks/ And you can only take so much/ Walk on." And on Peace on Earth, he mourns, "Sick of sorrow/ I'm sick of the pain/ I'm sick of hearing again...