Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pileggi gathered for a nonfiction book that has just been published, and the screenplay he wrote with director Martin Scorsese is at its best in its reportorial passages. If you want to know just how the Mafia skimmed the profits from its Las Vegas operation, or how not-so-wise-guys tried to scam it, Casino is instructive in an almost documentary way. But Scorsese, one of the cinema's great stylists, has evolved a manner for his film--a compound of mini-dissolves, jump cuts, freeze frames and optical effects--that is anything but documentary. It is a kind...
...McGaw '97 respectable show. Well-cast as Wallace, Jed Silverstein gave a seasoned and (at rare moments) touching perfromance. With a mix of stand-up comic swagger and adolescent noxiousness, Silverstein breathed life into Wallace's character and kept him marvelously alive throughout. Becca Lowenhaupt is memorable as the wise, heavily-accented Jewish grandmother, a stereotype people never seem to grow tired...
...Jack Wise, client manager for the Office for Information Technology (OIT), said the upgrade was necessary to accommodate growth in the system, most of which was due to use by administrators rather than by students...
...Wise said the system, which currently contains 11,110 mailboxes, 1,500 of which belong to students, ran out of memory a few weeks ago during Columbus Day weekend, preventing callers from leaving messages...
...Wise said the office is trying to be "more proactive" in letting people know about the upgrade ahead of time...