Word: wit
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...rootless adventurers: Amram, a massive Abyssinian axman, and Zelikman, a pale, painfully skinny Frank (a kind of proto-German) who dresses in all black and carries a surgical instrument as a weapon. They are fast friends, seasoned brawlers and amateur philosophers given to terse exchanges of melancholy wit. They resemble--as all couples who stay together long enough ultimately do--Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot...
...blatant concerns, including “Will Dan ever find love again?” But despite the overabundance of eye-rolling moments, the film still delivers plenty of honest and funny family scenes. The story may not be original, but it is timeless, and several surprising examples of wit and tenderness may prove more enduring than some of its sale-bin predecessors. Though not the sweep-you-off-your feet tale Binoche is searching for, “Dan in Real Life” is, as Carell states at the very beginning...
...your pants? Because I wanna tap that ass.” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I love being voluntarily judged by FM readers. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Bitch please, I’m da macaroni wit da cheese. Favorite childhood toy: HELLO KITTY. Sexiest physical trait: My fake blue (or green, or gray, or violet) eyes. Favorite part about Harvard: Producing Identities, the fashion show, and working with wonderful, beautiful people. Apply for board now! Describe yourself in three words: Can’t touch this...
Beijingers have a reputation in China for aloofness and a dry, self-mocking wit. According to Wang Shuo, China's most famous modern novelist, it's a sense of irony developed over centuries as a way of living with the fallout from the capital's endless factional power struggles. If so, the capital's 17 million residents are getting an excellent opportunity to test their famous detachment this week as Beijing hosts the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The get-together, held once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather...
...goes throughout Elizabeth. Wit might have animated it. Or authentic passion. Or a certain imperiousness in Blanchett's playing, a certain dangerousness in Owen's. But the movie wants to see them as more modern figures - earnest, good-natured, embryonic democrats. Elizabeth, as a number of movies have proved over the decades, was a great historical figure but not a great dramatic one. The historical Queen undoubtedly had tolerant and democratic impulses of the kind that are imputed to her here. But she was also a canny, hidden and manipulative monarch, not given to broad, emotionally riveting gestures. I suppose...