Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David Byrne of the Talking Heads, because ofhis quirky wisdom...
Damascus Nights reads simply as a long parable expounding the healing virtue of stories. They're grrreat. Schami implies that all the world's story, and all the men and women merely characters-I have this vague feeling I've heard that somewhere before. This forced reiteration reduces wisdom to hokeyness...
...with prospects of creating a corporate colossus extending telephone and cable-television wires into roughly one out of every four American households, simply got cold feet. And it was more than government regulations that pulled them apart. The price of their stocks was plunging, and doubts about the economic wisdom of the merger were on the rise. And the deal may have been too big and too hasty. Wall Street reacted with a 51.78-point drop in the stock market on Thursday...
After years of fragmenting TV audiences and drooping ratings for even major sports events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the networks had cause to cheer: Lillehammer showed that couch potatoes can still be lured back. The Games' popularity also disproved one bit of conventional Olympics wisdom -- that live is better than taped. Although the prime-time events were canned and the results known beforehand, viewers couldn't seem to turn away...
...Harvard Under Glass team got a bit cranky about New England weather, that off-again, on-again tease. HUG was tempted to transfer somewhere permanently warm and sunny and Spanish-speaking but was convinced not to do so by the dining hall checker. Sensing in this woman profound wisdom and deep understanding, HUG passed on the Thai dinner, pulled a chair up to the checker's desk and listened intently as this venerable oracle spilled truth after truth...