Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...though, this is less about wit than respect. If you’re a Michigan hockey fan and your coach, who has won more than 500 games and taken your team to 13 straight NCAA tournaments, asks you to do something as a favor to him, you do it. Period...
Read High Fidelity and longing for more of that bitingly sarcastic wit? Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and other poignantly humorous novels like About a Boy and How to Be Good, will read from his latest publication, Songbird, a collection of short essays about musicians. Songbird explores Hornby’s thoughts on a wide range of musicians, from Ani DiFranco to The Beatles to Nelly Furtado. Though different in format from his previous novels, Hornby continues his custom of literary music-loving, offering insights for music geeks and book lovers alike. 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books, 30 Brattle...
...herself) in persons from a TV anchorman to a cafeteria lunch lady. Joan has a heart-wrenching family situation--a brother who's been partially paralyzed in a car accident--but the show leavens the emotional moments with a light touch. Its God has a wry, chop-busting wit: "In me you trust," muses the Almighty, examining a dollar bill. "Not exactly true." And Joan's father (Joe Mantegna) is Arcadia's chief of police, for those viewers who wouldn't find the manifestation of the Almighty dramatic enough without the occasional kidnapping to spice things...
...Bright Hockey Center on a magical March eve two seasons ago. A spry puck-stopping machine, Danis turned down serious free agent cheese over the summer—including an offer from his favorite team, the Montreal Canadiens—to return to Brown for his senior year. To wit: Bank on him having a very focused, often spectacular season...
...doing a little Rush research, I decided to buy his book, The Way Things Ought to Be. In a cursory perusal—and I stress “cursory” because, though there may be some merit in reading such literary wit as “The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples,” I was unable to find it—I happened upon “Limbaugh’s Lexicon,” where he unsuccessfully attempts a humorous spin of his hateful dogma...