Word: witness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie was directed by Richard Lester, a film maker of satiric skill and carbolic wit unsurpassed in the contemporary English-speaking cinema (Petulia, The Bed Sitting Room and the recent Three Musketeers). Lester is also a superb stylist, and he has made Juggernaut into a cunningly engineered entertainment, full of suspense. The Poseidon Adventure, by inevitable comparison, looks like something staged by a kid in his bathtub just before bedtime. Lester has done the calamity number about as well as it can be done. Why it has to be done at all is another matter...
British election campaigns are mercifully short, and this one lasted no more than the minimum three weeks. Even so, one Liberal Party worker admitted that "there is a real problem that we could alienate voters by overcanvassing the way we did last time." Clement Freud, the talk-show wit and Liberal MR, forgivingly told a small audience in his rural constituency: "I know there are many other attractions in Tydd St. Giles." Summed up Guardian Columnist Adam Raphael: "The election shows disturbing signs of going to sleep...
Sterling (original name: Bruno Zwerling) began amassing a collection of memorabilia that now includes four filing cabinets stuffed with 13 years of Rogers' columns and other writings. He decided that Rogers' country wit and wisdom "deserved to be read again." Sterling keys his selections to current headlines, but does not try to edit out now obscure references or names. He believes that the vintage flavor of the columns adds to their basic appeal: "When people read Will Rogers, they realize that much of what we are going through has happened before, that we've already lived through...
Compared with Ali's endless repertory of wit and rhyme, Foreman's verbal acrobatics seem hopelessly square. "Do you know the Pledge of Allegiance?" he will ask someone for fun. Or Foreman may test a visitor by asking him to recite the Lord's Prayer. Ali may soon lose his claim to being No. 1 in fast footwork. Last winter, when Foreman was living in Los Angeles, he studied ballet. Though he demonstrates pliés only when photographers' backs are turned, Foreman says, "I took up ballet after seeing a dance show in Las Vegas...
...German wit L. A. Feuerbach observed, is what he eats. The culinary tastes of Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...