Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many records (a 50-point average one season, 100 points one game), the most remarkable and descriptive was that in 1,218 career games he never once fouled out. The basket was Chamberlain's secondary goal; the primary one was not to be an ogre. His enduring wisdom: "Nobody loves Goliath...
Unlike Lincoln, Reagan does not seem tired inside. He still rejects Carter's notion of a paralyzing national malaise. The world does not view him as weak, though it often regards him as stubborn and ignorant. The prevailing wisdom among the fallible Washington seers is that Reagan faces more hazards in his third year than any recent President. His programs have not worked so far. An international banking crisis looms, along with rising fears about nuclear...
Tootsie is the story of how a failed off-Broadway actor named Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) achieves wisdom as well as professional success when he dresses up as a woman called Dorothy Michaels, becomes a star on a television soap opera and a kind of feminist media heroine as well. The movie was one of the messiest productions in recent history, for a time informally retitled "The Troubled Tootsie" in the gossip columns. No fewer than eight writers, three directors and a spare producer or two worked on it. There were hair-raising stories of Hoffman and Director Sydney Pollack...
...comeback. Exhibit A: Help! Let Me Out! (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95). In this psychological fantasy, Hugo learns to throw his voice. The disembodied sound has a life of its own, like Gogol's nose, appearing on the moon, at the circus and even at school, where it spouts wisdom like "Alaska is the President of Brazil." David Lord Porter's whimsical prose and David Macaulay's antic drawings combine to sustain an air of credible lunacy to the indisputable punch line: "Be careful what you throw away. You might want it back...
...blind oracle. Peace reigns until the king decides to move a red sunstone. Once the rock is disturbed, the Sea People experience an absolute shower of gold. But absolute shower corrupts absolutely, and soon the islands are threatened by pride and avarice. Only the old man's wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple...