Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rules—club members actually take them quite seriously. Don’t take it personally when there are more BU, BC, Wellesley, and Tufts girls at the AD’s Christmas party, or pink party, or Caddyshack party—it is no reflection on your wit, intellect, or desirability. (Just think of them as walking ego-boosters. They save you work.) Just don’t call them “imports” to their faces—Harvard girls keep it classy...
...position when confronted by Woods at the climax to a major. Not Yang. For the first time ever, a player in the final pairing not only reeled Woods in (the South Korean trailed by two shots at the start of play Sunday) but did it with such panache - to wit, chipping in from short of the green for an eagle two on 14 and making an extraordinary approach shot on 18 as he negotiated a tree that blocked his view of the pin - that Yang's achievement has become the stuff of instant golf legend. (See pictures of Tiger Woods...
...Originally from Philadelphia and raised in Miami, Barofsky was the youngest of three children; his father, Stephen, called Barofsky's two older sisters "tough" on their little brother - early training for what a former colleague called his "sharp and sometimes withering wit...
...national identities, the cloth was perfect--and it was also gorgeous. Shonibare set to work using it for his signature mannequins. Dummies in more ways than one, his headless figures are oblique meditations on the complexities of cultural identity, coming at the question from the indirect angles provided by wit, ambiguity and beauty. In his ensemble piece Scramble for Africa, the 14 life-size figures arranged around a table represent the colonial powers that carved up Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, where they helped themselves to what King Leopold II of Belgium called a "slice of this...
...including Allen's own. It's common for reviewers of his recent work to cite an early triumph like Bananas or Annie Hall and find the new ones lacking. Whatever Works is different: it has that young-Woody fizz with a mature comic romanticism; it's been aged in wit. If Allen has a decade or two of films left in him and if he makes a really excellent one years from now, people will say, "It's terrific, but it's no Whatever Works...