Word: wit
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...some, she epitomized the poor little rich girl. The younger sister of the Queen seemed to have everything: wealth, beauty, wit, freedom from too onerous a royal workload, the zest to pursue a glamorous, sometimes controversial lifestyle in the most rarefied echelons of society. Yet the lasting memory of Princess Margaret will probably be that of a sad figure who was unlucky in love and who never really found a fulfilling role in life or a lasting marital relationship...
...musical also suffers from a lack of wit. The songs, bogged down with lyrics reminiscent of tortured school-boy poetry, don’t allow much humor...
...surprisingly, the “Blind Date” formula for compatibility sometimes fails. Miserably. Last week, Mark, a self-described humorist, attempted to seduce Raquel with his biting wit: “What do you get when you cross a potato with a penis? A dictator.” Worse, during the show’s “Hall of Shame” segment, Pete described what he looks for in a woman: “medium-sized breasts” and “a shaved pubic region...
...Enronization" of budget politics has begun. To wit: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad says he was driving to work Monday morning and the thought occurred to him that "the biggest problem with Enron was that they were hiding debt - hiding it from their shareholders, hiding it from creditors, hiding it from themselves. I think that's exactly what the federal government is doing. The federal government is now engaged in hiding and understating debt...
...sober wit of this comedy arises not from conventional artifice--snappy dialogue, wacky situations--but from a realistically drawn ensemble interacting truthfully with one another. And gently, insinuatingly rebelling against their dismal fate. --By Richard Schickel...