Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton-gate: So Far, So Good You wouldn't have thought it this time last week, but the President is in better shape than ever -- poll-wise and donation-wise...
...answers to which are in his head and his head alone: Did you have an affair with an intern, Mr. President? And did you encourage her to lie about that affair? He's waiting because he doesn't want to deny anything which might later be proven true. A wise legal move. Unfortunately, it's a devastating ethical move. I don't believe him now. I wanted him to be honestly angry from the beginning, to deny the charges and dismiss them as the ludicrous fantasies of an imaginative young woman. But he did not, not convincingly, not until...
Kwan, in her wise-teen way, is looking beyond Olympic gold. "When I'm 80 years old and I look back," she says, "I want to see me. I don't want to see Salome [a role she once skated] or any other character but me." With a comeback dramatized by two transcendent performances last week, she got her wish, more than six decades ahead of schedule...
Jack Nicholson, back in leading-man form, plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall. The movie's first scene shows Melvin shoving an adorable little dog down a garbage chute, and he doesn't get much more polite than that, dispensing sharp-tongued and occasionally appalling wise-cracks throughout...
...palace but drives him instead to his own death. Intermingled are the tragic stories of Antony's two wives--Fulvia and Caesar's sister Octavia (Margaret Hulce '01)--and his faithful accomplice Eros (also played by Hulce). Octavius Caesar (David Egan '00) broods over the play like a wise, omnipresent deity...