Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their idea of dying and going to heaven was to sit and talk to Bjorn Borg for two hours." Inside the phlegmatic Swede, Phillips found, there is a bright, charming young man. "He's not wildly controversial or colorful," she says. "But he has a dry, self-deprecating wit, and the patience and good will of a true gentleman. He will sign hundreds of autographs and never let on to people that they happen to be intruding on his time...
...Youngers; Randy and Dennis Quaid as Clell and Ed Miller; Christopher and Nicholas Guest as the Fords, who, of course, done pore Jesse in. All of them turn in finely controlled performances. David Carradine gets the luck of the lines. Almost everything he says has a nice dry wit about...
...plays of G.B.S., talk is the moral equivalent of war. Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...
...commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect, on a mercenary basis. There seems something dishonorable and even vaguely decadent in privileged Americans hiring others to do their duty for them. "As for "living," the French symbolist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam once said with languid wit, "our servants will do that for us." As for tending the radarscopes and rolling around in the mud and giving the Soviet Union pause and enforcing our foreign-policy-by-other-means, if necessary, too many Americans say we will let the hired help tend...
...Time of Desecration is not extreme enough. Its materials call out for the purging effects of outrageous comedy. There is some bitter wit in Desideria's cold-eyed observations, but her force as a character is throttled by garrulous abstractions. She is convincing only when she is a sounding board for Moravia's feelings, most tellingly: "I had been bourgeois, I was bourgeois, I would remain bourgeois, forever...