Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show invites us to have the cake and eat it too-to see his work as part of a "heroic" historical continuum while deriding the cliches to which that continuum has been worn down. But this cannot divert the suspicion that, for all his manifest abilities as wit and designer, his art has become repetitious. -By Robert Hughes
...they might say in show biz, Ed Koch is top banana in the Big Apple. Now an enterprising publisher has put together a collection of his yaks and zingers titled 'How'm I Doing?' The Wit & Wisdom of Ed Koch (Lion Books; $4.50). A sampling...
...national and international stages." So said Jeff MacNelly, 33, last week as he announced that he was giving up regular political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would like to work end to end on something." Though he plans to spend more time on Shoe...
Meantime, there is Superman II to consider, and a pleasant prospect it is. For it is that rarity of rarities, a sequel that readily surpasses the original. This is not, perhaps, a task requiring Kryptonic levels of wit and wisdom, because the initial effort was more than a little crude. The film makers suffered from a deep insecurity about what to take seriously, what they could afford to kid around with in updating the pop legend. Whether in derision or in a desperate desire to get laughs, the picture seemed to be running around with its tongue stuck...
...candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems logical to single out the man who did A Hard...