Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...says Allen, "but at the same time MySpace is just a website; it's the music that people are attracted to, not the Internet." So what is her draw? Allen's cutting, sometimes dark, tales of London life, breakup and revenge, unwanted suitors and mortgages, drenched with wit and wrapped around the unlikeliest pop hooks and a reggae brass backing, a bit like Blondie's forays into a Caribbean sound. Allen's blog is a big hit too, as she humorously details her pop-star-on-the-rise life: "All I did was sign a deal...
...that could stop time but only rarely ("irrational exuberance") ruffled the markets. Asked about the nation's blooming deficit, Bernanke answered crystal clearly, "Deficits matter because they represent additions to debt that our children and grandchildren will either have to pay through higher taxes or reduced services." Bernanke's wit also made a guest appearance. When Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes asked Bernanke whether rising rents and their impact on the weakening housing market would make him think "one and a half times" about raising interest rates, Bernanke responded, "No, I'll think twice, Senator...
...only to bring their inhabitants back down to earthiness, but they still pitched their tents close to the poverty line, where, perforce, the living was never easy but the conflicts were always very basic. There was an instinctive understanding among those moviemakers that spectacle was inimical to comedy. Wit is subtle and sly; spectacle is noisy and crushing...
...governor's daughter (Kiera Knightly) turned out to be representatives of the undead, which involved her swain (Orlando Bloom) and Jack with a lot of special-effects figures (they turned into skeletons when night fell). This was, I thought, a drag, but it was rendered tolerable by the wit and originality of Depp's performance. This time, the plot device is quite similar: The eponymous chest contains something that will return Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), king of the underseas underworld and, yes, captain of the The Flying Dutchman, no less, to the land of the fully living...
...blessing bestowed on the original production, which the sequel is sort of stuck with. He was so good, doing, as he confessed, his imitation of the piratical Keith Richards, that he grabbed the reviews that brought in, as an unexpected increment, a crowd of grown-ups looking for some wit in an unlikely place - the multiplexes in summertime. This new film lends a certain credence to that supposition. It is as endless (at two and a half hours) as the Peter Jackson King Kong, and like that misbegotten film it is intended for the last mass audience left...