Word: wises
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...Reagan fires up crowds on his planned weekly speaking schedule, perhaps he can regenerate the political clout created by his spectacular election victory last year. But Washington-wise politicians of each party agree that he has let that advantage dissipate over the past eight months. Rather than / committing a single, crippling blunder, the complacent President failed to point his Administration in new directions. Instead of revitalizing his capable team of advisers, Reagan let it break up, and then lost more time as Donald Regan settled in as the new chief of staff. The President stirred a storm of controversy...
...Peace Corps credentials and flee Far Eastward to escape gambling debts on the very night of his Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence's immense puzzlement ("I do think I've put in the hours, don't you?"). The rest of this ship of idealists bellows...
...colleagues in the department also hope she won't leave. "I hope we don't lose too much of her time, because she's been a very wise member of the department," says Pilbeam...
...this is Oz, Dorothy," says Billina, the talking chicken, "I'd rather take my chances back in Kansas." A wise bird. Any movie in which a Midwestern prairie actually looks more attractive and more interesting than the enchanted land over the rainbow is in big trouble...
Which is only to say that The Goonies is as hip, sassy and innocent as its seven teenage heroes. In the Spielberg tradition, each youngster uses his or her ordinary strengths to forge, and then save, a community of lost souls. Wise-Guy Mouth (Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on an old map; Data (Ke Huy-Quan) gets out of scrapes with his Rube Goldberg gadgets; pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does...