Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animals, would seem to be in order rather than the elaborate ornamentation of a Bach violin concerto. The lighting, on the other hand, was fairly standard, shifting from an initial dimness to "candlelight" in the crucial Laura-Jim scene, to complete darkness as Laura blows the candle out. A wise choice if not a particularly exciting one: conventionality doesn't detract from its emotional effectiveness...
...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...
Parents ought to read the instinctively wise and warm article "Why Johnny Can't Sleep" [HEALTH, April 14]. Years ago child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim told me that the isolation and separateness in American society were not necessarily healthy. Children who sleep in bed with family members learn important behaviors about getting along with others socially. This idea was greatly reinforced for me while I was director of the Southeast Asian refugee program for children, ages 1 to 6, at the Indochinese Center in Portland, Oregon. Seeing firsthand how much better socially adjusted and emotionally mature these war-torn, Third World...
...Chemeleski thought other-wise, and ruled that a Harvard degree would be in the "best interests" of both Ocon and her baby...
...such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority...