Word: wiseness
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Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from...
...able to extract from Mikhail Gorbachev an agreement-in-principle for a trade-off between existing Soviet offensive forces and the American SDI while it is still only a gleam in the President's eye. Since there are reasons to question whether SDI is scientifically feasible or strategically wise, restricting the program to research in exchange for significant reductions in the most threatening Soviet weapons could be the deal of the century. Because of his awesome political strength, Reagan is in a unique position to cut that deal with the Kremlin and win the approval of Congress...
...someone down to Atlanta to find out what's going on with ValuJet," I said, not feeling wise or clairvoyant, just afraid. "There's something wrong, and we've got to find out before someone dies...
...When he finally did speak at those meetings, he slowly and methodically summarized everyone's points of view and then unfurled his own thoughts, subtly steering the decision in the direction he wanted without imposing it. The trick of leadership is allowing yourself to be led too. "It is wise," he said, "to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea...
...Thompson had, in the pre-revolutionary culture of that period, plenty of company, ranging from the psychiatrist R.D. Laing to the media guru Marshall McLuhan. The more gnomic their pronouncements, the more they seemed to the impressionable to be deeply wise and romantic. It is during this time that fame became a major factor in Thompson's demise. The groupies gathered, the legend grew and, soon enough, the work suffered even more deeply. A nadir was reached in 1974 when he was assigned to cover "The Rumble in the Jungle" between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. He chose to float...