Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of value is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. "The conventional wisdom on the street is that Paramount is way overpriced," says J. Kendrick Noble Jr., who runs his own media consulting firm. "But here you have enormous egos who think they can work wonders with this company; so anything goes." Sometimes the egos get it right: Wall Street hooted at Ted Turner for paying $1.2 billion for the MGM film library in 1986, but today that price is considered a bargain...
...revert when they're released, and the problem will just get worse. Emphasizing treatment may not satisfy people fed up with being preyed upon, but a President should speak straight even if what he advocates isn't popular. If he sticks to his guns, the results will prove the wisdom of his policy...
...conventional wisdom formed quickly after yesterday's debate in Sanders Theatre, and as is often the case with conventional wisdom, it was shallow. Students who no doubt pride themselves on looking beyond image have failed to do so, declaring Andrew Sullivan the winner without adequately considering the arguments on display yesterday...
...music shares an intensity and an intimacy with the listener: it is an acute, astute cauterization of the wounds of the spirit. I'm Alive is a duel between edgy resignation, of loving and hurtful recollection, and a cautionary wisdom that comes fresh from a skirmish on the front lines. You can almost feel the powder burn when in My Problem Is You Browne sings, "I wanted to live in the realm of the senses/ You've got to know how/ And for some kinds of pleasure there are no defenses/ I know that...
Although he has a photograph of Geronimo, "the last of the renegade Apaches," on his bedroom wall and likes to think of himself as a renegade too, Paddy piously believes the conventional wisdom shared by his friends: "When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way forever." And juvenile humor naturally appeals to him: "Did you hear about the leper cowboy? He threw his leg over his horse...