Word: wit
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...Wolfe has picked a prickly fight by depicting and assessing his vision of modern college life. Wolfe became legendary serving up the counterculture and packaging New York City’s economic elite, but his latest effort is arguably his most difficult yet—decoding the profanity-laced wit and sexually charged wisdom of today’s undergraduate youth...
...little disappointed in Karl,” Shepherd says. “I figured he’d bring a bit more wit, and less homogeneity, to the world of consumer fashion...
...eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols compliments Roberts as "the CNN of actresses: on the close-up you actually see a crawl--noun by noun, adjective by adjective--of what she's thinking.") They keep Closer alive and lively, worth watching for clues even as we attend to the wit of Marber's dialogue. It's a film of cutting words and subtle sign language...
...problems that can come with that. And it's got very well-written dialogue. It's such a treat to be able to have such language at your disposal. Dialogue used to be much more important in movies, and we've lost that." Thanks to Marber's invigorating wit, "Closer" restores the need to pay attention to what's said on screen. It's been some time at the movies since we've used those delicate organs, our ears, for processing much more than punch lines and gunfire...
Mansfield also has a reputation in the government department for his wit, integrity and tendency to “wear hats in a cocky way” according to department chair Nancy Rosenblum ’69, who holds the Clark professorship of ethics in politics and government...