Word: witness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beards at Sea. Which means that Buckley can be counted on to temper the traditions of the sea with modern irony. The book is full of the renowned Buckley wit. On beards at sea: "Arriving in Bermuda unshaved at the end of the ocean race always struck me a little like the athlete on campus who wears his sweatshirt inverted, ostensibly to disguise the varsity letter-which, of course, accentuates that which it purports to cover: like men's bikinis." On beards in general: "Men tend to look the same. I have always shuddered at the possibility that...
...must make a final admission about Network. There is a lunatic energy about it. Every once in a while, Chayefsky abandons the struggle to dramatize his ideas and has somebody, usually Holden, just turn to the camera and spout off. In those moments, his concern - and sometimes his mother wit - comes blazing through and the picture takes on a life not found in safe, sane, well-calculated movies...
...Senator, Sasser will vote most often with the moderates. He claims to be a Carter-style populist and a disciple of Gore and the late Estes Kefauver. Sasser's manner, Kennedy-esque good looks and ready wit mark him as an attractive Senate newcomer worth watching-particularly since he will have a close, and grateful, friend in the White House...
...hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth. The Indian Wants the Bronx is a half-hour exercise in existential schmaltz. West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz are cliches, too, but they exude wit and romance where The Indian only hits you over the head with sociological pretension...
...playwright, ravenous for material, will ransack his memoirs for the better parts of the three plays (The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Parts I and II) in which he will appear as his roistering self. The ungrateful Shakespeare cast sturdy Falstaff as a buffoon instead of a wit, and a coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after...