Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew that sometimes how one reached a decision was as important as the decision itself. He had the courage to face facts as they were, not as he would like them to be. And in that, Justice Powell represented the best we could hope to become: a genuinely wise man for whom balanced judgment represented a prime virtue...
...knows how. Buffett's empire rests on the beer-soaked foundation of shows like this one in Cincinnati. He presides over the ritual, a short, balding, joyful character charging around the stage, cracking wise and showing off an uncanny ability to sing, play guitar, smile and kick beachballs all at the same time. Scores of those balls and inflatable sharks are bouncing above the crowd; doctors and lawyers are dancing with their children; sales clerks and college kids are swaying with their honeys; and everyone's singing along with the tight, glistening music. It's a giddy, collective delusion--landlocked...
...must report, comrades, that at the last possible moment, I betrayed the information revolution: I followed the traffic. That turned out to be a wise move. I subsequently consulted a paper map and can only conclude that the road I and my fellow travelers took hadn't been built when Big Book's database was created...
...view the whole Powerball experience as a good use of their entertainment dollars, and as long as a person doesn't get fixated on how he or she will one day become more like Ivana Trump, what's the harm? For the Lucky 13, the decision to play was wise. The dozen and one machinists from Automation Tooling Systems in Westerville, Ohio, have been pooling money for lottery tickets for six years and hit the jackpot last week with the winning numbers 8, 39, 43, 45, 49 and the Powerball 13. With each member having chipped in $10, one Lucky...
...Jerome Robbins will be wisps of memory. But West Side Story (1961) will live forever. The moviemakers had taken Robbins's "Fancy Free" and etched it as On The Town in 1949; "West Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn...