Word: wisdoms
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Edward Zwick, the director, and Susan Shilliday and Bill Wittliff, the screenwriters, are under the impression that they are bringing forth a tragic epic, not a silly melodrama, and therefore much blood must be spilled before whoever is left standing at the end is granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure...
...Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations...
...even Butch Cassidy somehow making it all the way to his sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
...over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...
Trying to calm Republican congressional critics of the U.S.-North Korea nuclear deal today, Defense Secretary William Perry said that the alternative to the $4 billion accord is heightened military tension in the region. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole had said the Senate might question the "legality and wisdom of aiding North Korea." Perry also said that North Korea has been keeping promises to halt its nuclear program, even during tense negotiations over the fate of Bobby Hall...