Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crafty little twist. It should not diminish the viewer's surprise too much to say that Siegel takes a tangible joy in watching the last of the independents outfox the various organizations that have been causing him grief. Charley Varrick is a sort of backhanded testament to the wisdom that comes with experience...
...battle rages distantly and violently on both sides of the canal, anyone who questions Israel's wisdom in having hung onto the vast uninhabited buffer space that it seized in the Sinai apparently cannot now get much of a hearing in the streets of Tel Aviv. The answer that will not be listened to is really a question: Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what...
...existence to both peoples, so real their fears and so inescapable their hostility, that outsiders who arrive there to talk of evenhandedness, fair-mindedness and rational solutions find themselves instantly suspect for their naiveté. The most egregious assumption that outsiders make is that their detachment gives them superior wisdom. In fact, the intractable problems of the Middle East have been endlessly considered and eloquently argued on both sides. In candid private moments, Israeli leaders can discuss Arab rights and needs with sympathy and understanding. On the Arab side, Hussein has acted with courageous prudence, Feisal with caution, and Sadat...
...this ill-written, wretchedly performed and tediously directed film may be said to have a central flaw, it probably lies in its reckless violation of a bit of conventional theatrical wisdom: when you call a lot of attention to a gun on the wall in Act I, it had better go off-loudly-by the end of the evening...
...popular wisdom, held by amateur electricians and some retail electronics dealers, is that the company checks for variations in voltage on the lines. They say that if the bell on an extension is not connected, the company can't detect the violation...