Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Confucius were drinking tea today, his brand of choice would surely be Salada. As he drank in the flavor the orange pekoe and contemplated the meaning of life, he would have appreciated the pearl of wisdom on the back of those unassuming red octagons...
These pithy maxims and precepts represent nothing less than the distilled wisdom of the ages, a Ten (Thousand) Commandments for a generation of tea drinkers. Surely such wisdom can only come from someone who spends his life in constant meditation, carving his maxims into stone tablets and passing them on to his disciples to disseminate in the form of Tag Lines--the wise, bearded Salada...
...movie business, perception is reality because "all rumors are true." An executive will go to A.A. meetings not because he is an alcoholic but because "that's where all the deals are being made." Michael Tolkin's script abounds in such cynical wisdom, but it never loses an appreciation for the grace with which these snakes consume their victims. Robert Altman, whom Hollywood has both favored (in his M*A*S*H days) and dismissed (over the past decade), directs the bright carnage with an assurance that only a hard-hided survivor can provide. He is like St. Sebastian, plucking...
According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...
...music of the Magic Flute has met with universal praise almost since its premiere, that of Tito has been disparaged as the product of a sick and exhausted man, and as a hastily-written, half-hearted effort. Eliot Gardiner's recording gives the lie to this bit of received wisdom, by showing how full of life the piece truly...