Word: wisecrack
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...help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
...Journey Into Night, since both take the rigid form of a one-day revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble up from every line, and the moral is simply a wisecrack-coated placebo that goes down without effort and is guaranteed against causing distress...
...territory that is 13 times the size of France, divided among more than 1,000 tribes speaking 600 different tongues, many of them still so primitive that only five years ago a native elected to the French Senate was murdered and eaten by his Ivory Coast constituents. (Most tactless wisecrack of the week: outgoing Premier Edgar Faure's quip that Guy Mollet had included seven Senators in his government "to keep Houphouet-Boigny well...
...most popular girl in Argentina?" asks a current Buenos Aires wisecrack. The answer: "Mercedes-Benz" -a humorous salute to the more than 13,000 German busses, trucks and cars that roll through the capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than...
...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...