Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the family's troubles are so terrible; it is that they are so terribly typical. Eldest son Gil (Steve Martin) is a perfectionist who wants to be the ideal husband, father, provider and Little League manager that Frank never was. Gil's wise and patient wife (Mary Steenburgen) can deal with the pressure his anxious idealism generates, but his eight-year-old son cannot. The boy's school is insisting that special education is his only hope. His ball team is down on him because he keeps muffing easy pop-ups. Which, of course, makes Gil try even more...
...there is Da Mayor, an older alcoholic, who, with his wise words and placating ways, seems to swing more towards King's side of the spectrum...
...Western Europe similarly continues to become more independent of the U.S. And Bush's skimpy aid offerings in Warsaw and Budapest showed that as the waning of the cold war hastens these shifts in Europe's tectonic plates, the U.S. is likely to find it both necessary and wise to let its allies take the lead in managing Western responses to changes in Eastern Europe...
Crystal is great as an older more pathetic kind of wise guy than his earlier self. He is well cast and funny but it is Ryan--with her big blue eyes reminiscent of Goldie Hawn--who is really outstanding...
Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...