Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living organisms die, heat, light and bacteria begin to degrade the constituent compounds. That organic material then collects in sedimentary layers in the sea and is buried progressively deeper. After millions of years, pressure and temperature convert the debris into fossil fuels. Yet little hard evidence supports this conventional wisdom. Declares Tore Lindbo, Swedish Power Board coordinator of the Lake Siljan project: "It is simply a theory that is generally accepted...
...that time is passing, and it might be too late. The train might have already left the station. If we are realists--and we hope we all are, we all want to live, none of us wants to be destroyed --then we must muster the political will and the wisdom and stop this process, and begin the process of eliminating weaponry, and the process of improving, invigorating relations between the Soviet Union...
...soulful falsettos and calypso lilts to yelps and fierce warning tones; the dominant Sting style on this album is a plaintive ethereal, no doubt sincere, chant-singing. It becomes a trifle tiresome, especially on the preachy first side. Here, he casts himself as a minister/sage, eager to dispense his wisdom. But Sting's poetry is most often second-hand or simplistic...
...been immensely controversial, and justifiably so. The old logic underlying "offense-dominated deterrence" has yet to be disproved. Conversely, the technical feasibility and strategic wisdom of substituting defenses for offenses has yet to be proved. Says former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, an early proponent of restrictions on ABMs: "The human mind has yet to conceive of a way to limit offense while at the same time permitting unlimited defense...
When Eastwood, who also directed the picture (from a Michael Butler-Dennis Shryack script), faces off against Russell's Maleficent Seven, viewers may get an old-fashioned western tingle. But Pale Rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. A double feature of Shane and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter will do just fine, thanks...