Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly in intelligence areas, frequently trigger a constitutional debate about power. No matter what the truth of the accusations, the man in the Oval Office must always take time out to answer them. The imperatives of media politics have required Chief Executives to yield more ground than they considered wise or necessary...
...establish and maintain a sense among Harvard workers that their union will be a friend and supporter, HUCTW leaders say that the union must maintain its own autonomy despite its national backing. They add that AFSCME has been wise not to meddle excessively in the local operation...
...Untouchables is not a realistic recreation of Chicago during Prohibition. Nor is it a typical effort from Brian De Palma, who has often put his awesome technique and his admirable sense of film history to trashy (Dressed to Kill) or trivial (Wise Guys) ends. Instead, it goes to that place that all films aspiring to greatness must attain: the country of myth, where all the figures must be larger and more vivid than life...
...compassion that makes the author's moral tickling tolerable. At 36, Wilson already has a formidable literary career. He peoples his little worlds lavishly, and his characters are the creations of an exceptionally alert and abundant mind. The Healing Art (1980) was an early dazzler, trenchant but somewhat raveled. Wise Virgin (1982) was perhaps his best-constructed novel. Now, in Love Unknown, his balance and his bravura have meshed...
...father for the first time. The auteur, 51, said that his longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, 42, had become pregnant "by accident" and that he has no plans to marry or move in with the actress, who already has eight children of her own. "I think I'll be profoundly wise and generous, liberal, understanding," he deadpanned. "I'd be surprised if I'd be less than perfect as a father." Or less than colorful...