Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three Wise...
...Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) and Author-Lyricist Howard Ashman (Little Shop of Horrors) have written touching songs for the stars, Anne Marie Bobby as a sweet, awkward A student who realizes she is out of her element at the pageant and Jodi Benson as a wanderer who is prematurely wise in the ways of selling herself, including a talent-show "dramatic reading" that turns into a striptease. Smile may not be a landmark, but it is a pleasure. W.A.H...
...officials who dole out the large gobs of money that finance all these thespian calisthenics have recently been heard to rumble in discontent, it might be wise to ask what it's all good for. After all, if it is useless, we had better find out quickly so we still have time to improve our grades or something...
...panel established by President Reagan under the chairmanship of former Senator John Tower would be wise to eschew endorsing such steps. Although responsibility for covert operations properly belongs in normal intelligence channels, formal constraints on the activities of presidental staff could set an undesirable precedent. More important, legislation might have the effect of restricting secret diplomatic efforts that in some circumstances would be in the nation's interest...
...theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows and bears are wise and resourceful. "It's wonderful that we live in a world in which there are things that can eat us," says Larson. "It keeps us from getting too cocky...