Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entered his forehead just over his left eye and crossed through to the right side of his brain. Word quickly spread that he had died, causing gasps and sobs in the White House West Wing among aides and members of the seasoned press corps, for whom Brady, through his wit and warmth, had become more of a joyous friend than a mere professional colleague. For five hours, surgeons working with the aid of a microscope performed a delicate craniotomy, lifting off the top of his skull to remove a significant portion of his right frontal brain lobe, which, among other...
...only does he alleviate boredom by constantly varying his workouts, but Eddie is also well known for his sharp wit and his ability to make everyone laugh--especially at himself. Former Harvard swim captain Richard Greer, who trained with Eddie for several years in Florida, says that the coach's contagious zest for life helps his swimmers...
...actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...
...GORDON'S STRENGTH, her clever wit, turns out to be a weakness, for she fails to discriminate between her targets. When all are subject to her barbs, it leaves her novels without a confident voice, a voice which isn't undermined. We sympathize with her heroines, we pity them, but we do not respect them...
...more somber revelation: three bodies, frozen for months, their faces mutilated, their fingertips removed: deleted corpses, dead souls. It is an unpromising beginning for Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko. But it is an auspicious opening for Gorky Park, the first thriller of the '80s with polish, wit and moral resonance...