Word: wit
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Despite boasting perennial nobel candidate and literary giant Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's best-known cultural stars tend to spring from the small screen. So when a 27-year-old with a keen eye and quick wit penned a devastating examination of some of the country's most taboo subjects, it wasn't just the critics who were amazed. The only thing rarer than a female author in Indonesia is a best-selling one, a distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been...
Depending on your sense of humor, realizing you’re doing something socially inappropriate can be hilarious. In fact, comedians get paid to make these realizations, and, for their wit, we raise them up as cultural icons. But what happens when no one laughs—when either the context of the situation or the level of appropriateness falls outside of the realm of the humorous and into that of the offensive? What happens when a bunch of preppy, white college students dress up like thugs to go see a movie about a modern gangster-rapper? That question probably...
...girl who gets a catch because of the liveliness of her mind. I went to this hotel bar, and in the darkened corner sat Keira. She was a right scruffy little thing and a proper tomboy. Keira says exactly what she thinks and she has an incredible lively quick wit. She’s very bright and she has a grand independence of spirit. THC: What pressures, either personally or externally, did you face in adapting a greatly beloved novel, especially after there’s been a great adaptation by the BBC? JW: I was quite lucky in that...
...LENNY BRUCE PERFORMANCE FILM Modern stand-up and (in the Jon Stewart mode) sit-down comedy is inconceivable without Bruce, who, before his 1966 death from a heroin overdose, smashed political icons and broke language barriers with equal daring and wit. In this 1965 filming of one of his last sets, Bruce is clearly addled by drugs and depleted by the series of obscenity cases he had to fight. But his mind still worked with a jazzman's improvisatory genius; the hipster fireworks he launched retain their explosive impact. And, man, was he funny...
...spirals increasingly out of control. Plus, his daughter has diabetes. Yes, they go there.The fault largely lies in Stuart Beattie’s script, which fails to capture any of the thrill or urban grit of his noir masterpiece “Collateral” or any of the wit and slap-dash charm of his “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The anatomy of the affair fails to intrigue the audience with its bland dialogue and the utter lack of chemistry between Owen and Aniston. Charles picks up Lucinda by setting a $20 bet that...