Word: witness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together by a breezy cynicism that Howar dispensed like hair spray. Making Ends Meet is similarly bound. "I may be a cynic but I'm no whore," proclaims Lilly Shawcross of South Carolina, the novel's Howarish heroine. Like the author, Lilly is a woman of abrasive wit who will not go gently into that prescribed afternoon known as middle age. Divorced, 40, and the mother of two, she is also the sassy film critic for a Washington, B.C., TV station...
...acting laurels for the show clearly belong to Terry Knickerbocker, who delivers a lustrous performance as Jack Point. Possessed of a "pretty wit," Point is a man paid to be funny while all the time bleeding inside. Knickerbocker's command of the role is nothing short of masterful--every gesture, every expression is just right. Excluded from the circle of marital contentment at the end, he endows his final appeal to Elsie with a poignant melancholy that is riveting...
Through this aperture into the occult, the reader views a tapestry as large and ornate as any to be found in recent poetry. Merrill's allusions are often recondite. But his loving attention to brilliant surfaces outdazzles difficulties. The Book of Ephraim crackles with wit...
...topic of the debate was "Possession and Use of Marijuana--Should It Be Legalized?" Yale argued the affirmative position and Harvard took the negative in a night of continuous wit and repartee...
...fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole sequence of bird fantasies was set in train. Generally they were alarming...