Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance: insistently personal in tone, a little self-consciously dazzling. As represented by two essays in this collection, The Taste of the Age and Poets, Critics, and Readers, it was also a performance that succeeded too well. How could readers be persuaded by the argument that grace and wit were dying out, when it was advanced with all the grace and wit of a Randall Jarrell...
...Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross wit...
...family history on his office wall: an old photo of Great-Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with new concepts that animate his Essays. Says Morrow: "For me, ideas possess both drama and real, physical, palpable force...
...Anything worth doin's worth overdoin'," says Meat Loaf, the 260-lb. rock singer and star of Roadie. But this is one movie that knows how to overdo it-with speed, elegance, wall-to-wall raunch and a flaky, sidewise wit. Meat Loaf plays Travis W. Redfish, a north Texas naif with the soul of Candide and the hands of an expert mechanic. He hooks up as the "roadie" (bus driver and equipment manager) for a sleazy rock entrepreneur and falls immediately in love with Lola Bouilliabase (Kaki Hunter), a snaggletoothed, anorectic groupie whose mission in life...
...still be entered as best of breed, for Barich often seems to enter the souls of touts, breeders and even the animals themselves. But the book is far more. Like its predecessors, A Fan's Notes, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this unique adventure amalgamates wit, reportage and philosophy...