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Word: wising (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION. In John Patrick Shanley's Little Italy, all the women are worldly wise, and all the men are moonstruck. John Turturro leads the cast of this chocolate-heart comedy at the Manhattan Theater Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 21, 1988 | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...wise fan would...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Spirit | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION. In John Patrick Shanley's Little Italy, all the women are worldly-wise, and all the men are moonstruck. John Turturro leads the cast of this chocolate-heart comedy at the Manhattan Theater Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 14, 1988 | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...electorate's decision is held to be self-validating. However knowledgeable or ignorant, focused or distracted, reflective or scatterbrained they may be individually, the voters collectively are always wise. Political pundits who have been concentrating for months on the shallowest and most mechanistic aspects of the election campaign -- tactics, commercials, "likability" and so on -- will switch gears on Election Day and begin interpreting the "message" of the election in the most grandiose philosophical terms. Reports of the candidates' strategies for appealing to various groups or regions of the country will be replaced by theories about what an undifferentiated mass called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Democracy Can Goof | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...praised Bush lavishly. "He is strong,decent, loyal, wise, capable and compassionate,"Reagan said in California

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates Canvass Nation on Last Day | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

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