Word: twits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twit competitors, Sears officials delight in telling tales about high rollers who have sought out the financial centers, which also sell real estate and Allstate insurance. In Cupertino, Calif., a man walked into Sears and bought $3 million worth of securities. A Jacksonville, Fla., woman who received a Dean Witter flyer with her Sears charge-account statement responded with a $1 million check. Far more significant has been the amount of traffic attracted to the outlets, which, with potted plants and walnut desks, resemble suburban bank branches. The average broker has lured three times as many new accounts and booked...
...star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges the viewer both to sympathize with the hopelessness of Nowak's situation and to judge his complicity in it-to be Nowak and to see him clearly. Irons, the obsessive puppy of The French Lieutenant's Woman and the genteel twit of Brideshead Revisited, rises to his own new challenge. His performance is an anxious, splendidly controlled congeries of intelligence and feeling...
...Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee reads like a twit's guide to the jargon of the better classes...
...Actors Theater encourages everyone connected with it to participate in a short-play contest. The winner who created Twirler has chosen to remain anonymous. A pity: he or she is dramatically gifted. In a ten-minute monologue, the author moves from the mundane ("People think you're a twit if you twirl") to the realm of a mystical religious experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself...
...credentials for the loony bin are also flashed by John and Gwen Landis (Jonathan Hogan and Swoosie Kurtz), who want to buy the Talley place. Gwen is a vivacious twit who used to bomb her father's banks and now blitzes audiences with her pop singing. Kurtz delivers her lines with a sly acidic malice that heralds the second coming of Eve Arden...