Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help us understand the deep content of the movie, director/producer/co-writer Hugh Wilson (First Wives Club) decides to simplify everything. According to Blast, 1962 is no match for 1997's fast lane. The vast differences are represented by Brendan Fraser's wide-eyed Adam and Alicia Silverstone's street-wise Eve, the names being yet another insult to our intelligence...
...contrast, consider for a moment Kwanzaa, a black quasi-alternative to Christmas. The inspiration for Kwanzaa was born not in a manger, but in the mind of a would-be wise man, Dr. Maulana Karenga, a college professor in the 1960s. The holiday is founded on a fairly simple, if somewhat alarming, syllogism: blacks share a common African cultural heritage; blacks do not have a winter holiday of their own to celebrate; so blacks ought to have a holiday of their own with African underpinnings, festive rituals and all the trappings of a religious feast...
...Bunting is wise to protect itself from legal challenges under Title IX which prevents educational institutions from discriminating on the basis of gender. The institute has too good a reputation to get entangled in a legal battle should any spurned male applicant decide to litigate...
Note that certain classes require advance registration and are always liable to change, so calling ahead is wise. Partners are optional...
...wise move, she now says. After Cindy told her daughter about the rape, the young woman wrote, in her swirly cursive, an oddly jovial response, "Hi, how's everything going?" She said she was glad to learn "about my father's situation"--the only reference to the rape--and wanted to know how to find him. Cindy was horrified. Her daughter obviously hadn't grasped her pain, the nightmares--her whole life. The daughter, with the help of her adoptive mother, persisted in trying to find her father, a man Cindy had helped send to prison. Fearing he might find...