Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), has seen to the slaughtering of villagers before the entire place is torched. During a third battle, Barnes tracks down a woods-wise sergeant, Elias (Willem Dafoe), who had interrupted Barnes' massacre, shoots him and leaves him for dead. On the final patrol Chris flips into heroism or psychosis, wipes out a nest of North Vietnamese and confronts the demon he has almost become. End with a murder -- the last of too bloody...
...CENTRAL CHARACTER who ties several of these vignettes together is an aspiring actress named Sally White, played with characteristic grace and believability by--surprise, surprise--Mia Farrow. Even if Allen hadn't been shacking up with her, he would have been wise to cast her. Since he no longer sleeps with Diane Keaton, though, he has no excuse for giving her an entire scene in which she does nothing but sing...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, writing in the January Atlantic Monthly, warns of parallels between the current breathtaking stock-market expansion and the pre-Crash era of 1929. Maintains Galbraith: "The question now, in the winter of 1987, is whether the stock market is or has been repeating its history . . . The wise, though for most the improbable course, is to assume the worst...
...away. She has the style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook. As played by Jeff Bridges, he is also a total bore...
...Half a dozen of those guys over at the Washington Post are already Pulitzer candidates, and the New York Times hasn't even figured out whom to interview," said one Washington media observer as he watched the hometown paper, so wise in the ways of political scandal, get off the starting block ahead of the pack. But the pack is coming on hard. As in Watergate 14 years ago, the Times will surely bring in the reserves for the journalistic war that is now declared and may in the end prove as important as the political inquest about to start...