Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These include bringing handsome people--some of them silly, some of them wise, some of them rich, some of them poor--together in a variety of pleasing settings, arranging many misunderstandings and misalliances, equally productive of amusing conversations and embarrassing situations, then sorting everyone and everything out in the last chapter or act. It's a formula amply on display not only in Sense and Sensibility but also in Hollywood's major romantic offering of the Christmas season, Sabrina...
...been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne from seeing what everyone else can see, that the good Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), despite a certain stiffness in his emotional joints, is her savior...
...notices her, that threatens his engagement, which in turn threatens the merger of two family firms that Linus (Harrison Ford), his older brother and a grumpy workaholic, has been nurturing. The latter sets out to seduce Sabrina for purely business purposes and ends up himself seduced by this wise child...
...Jozska--surely to some degree modeled after the author as a child in wartime Budapest--is a rowdy, unscholarly wise guy more interested in cutting class to play soccer than in learning Hebrew like a proper Jewish son. But as he races about the city, often daring the devil by leaving off his yellow star, he sees clearly that two kinds of disintegration are occurring. And that one of them, the falling apart of German military strength, will not happen soon enough to prevent the second, the collapse of Hungarian civic morality, from grinding to completion...
...committee had to agree that the meeting was still privileged, and other Whitewater investigative bodies must agree to the terms. "This offer is reasonable," notes TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "since it's impossible to argue there's no privilege between the President and his attorneys. It's also a wise tactic politically since complying with it will delay the investigation." But Senator Al D'Amato, the committee chairman, clearly preferred a court fight: "It's good politics to keep this issue churning, especially given Newt Gingrich's recent problems...