Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McGraw and Hill are, right now, the prince and princess of country music. Oh, sure, sales-wise, Garth and Shania are still the king and queen, and yes, Kelly Willis' What I Deserve is, so far, the smartest, most consistently worthwhile country CD released this year--but if you're talking young, if you're talking sexy, spunky and--how cool is this?--married, McGraw, 32, and Hill, 31, are it. They are the Tom and Nicole of today's country music (fully clothed, of course). Hill's sunny third CD, Faith (Warner Bros.), has gone double platinum and spawned...
...protect their children from unsafe day-care centers and schools, as well as sexual predators. "As you understand how intuition helps protect your children, you'll react to smoke and not wait for fire," says De Becker. There's not a parent who wouldn't benefit from reading this wise book. --By Andrea Sachs...
...Everybody was in pretty much the same boat," says Evans' wife Susie, who has known George since elementary school, "and everybody pulled together. When times were hard, we had dinner parties." At some of those parties, George drank more than was wise. "Usually the next morning," Laura Bush says, she would tell him he should quit. Spectrum president Paul Rea gently suggested the same thing...
...stomps about. Dad wants to be a benevolent despot, but he has all that heft, and sometimes he crashes into the china. "Pop! Pop!" cries Keye Luke, the No. 1 son in the Charlie Chan movies. His incompetence is funny, but he is really desperate to please the All-Wise, All-Wisecracking round Titan in the white suit, who is sometimes the detective and sometimes the crime...
...flat-out comedies, movement means the rapid flapping of a wise mouth. Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids...