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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suppose, just for laughs, that the wisdom of Solomon is a myth. Says David: "I'll let you in on a secret about my son Solomon: he was dead serious when he proposed cutting the baby in half, that putz. I swear to God. The dumb son of a bitch was trying to be fair, not shrewd." Dialogues between exasperated father and nincompoop son appear to be modeled on the old radio sketches of Jack Benny and Dennis Day. David: "Do you understand what I'm saying to you about Joab? Do not let his hoar head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...wisdom was reported by Luke, the storytelling healer who became a first-rate campaigner of sorts himself some 2,000 years ago. Granted, that advice is a little strong for modern American political hyperbole, but then these times may demand radical doctrine because rarely has a presidential campaign begun so negatively and had the potential to descend into a cauldron of concentrated accusation undiluted by reason or enlightenment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Insulting Us with Insults | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...members of Team Banzai. On the other: Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), once a brilliant physicist, now the vilest, battiest extraterrestrial in all the genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...stairway ascend to the Coliseum torch was merely a gloss on the fact that the torch was lighted. Everything was startling, but the same. Tunes were played. The kids marched in and out. Odd to think that 52 years from now people may look back and remark with deep wisdom: How naive they were. How mindless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Glorious Ritual | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...being a prisoner of sex who craved a life sentence. Some of his song titles sounded like cuts on a Pigmeat Markham party record (Head, Soft and Wet). If there was a unifying theme to his lyrics-indeed, a governing obsession-it was that carnal knowledge is the ultimate wisdom. Party till you drop, make out till you molder: self-realization through rutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Highness of Haze | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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