Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents of Miami, it sharpened a passionate debate over Washington's response to the wave of U.S.-bound refugees. Long a solid bastion of conservative influence, the more than 1 million Cuban Americans in South Florida are torn over the wisdom of denying entry to the rafters, over President Clinton's refusal to negotiate with Castro, over the best approach to pry the Cuban leader from power...
Gump, however, refuses to suggest its idiot might be mistaken -- he must come out a winner. Thus by the closing credits, he is triumphantly spouting the same faux wisdom as at the beginning: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." And America is cheering...
Barrel Fever is as chock full of art and wisdom as I'd hoped. It's also proof that Sedaris can get as smelly as the best of them; several of the stories include grim details of home amputations, athletic phone sex and baby murder...
...This is wisdom not vouchsafed to the creators of Angels in the Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually...
...moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville, Florida, psychiatrist who worked in a veterans...