Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Ted Kennedy may not be endowed with John Kennedy's wit and intelligence or with the heart of Robert Kennedy, he has shown himself to have the guts of a street fighter. He always comes back. A man with the guts, determination and perseverance of a Ted Kennedy would serve the country well in the Oval Office...
...startling. Last fall and early winter, he sometimes seemed to lose his concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much oil do you think they'll discover drilling in the aisles of Montgomery...
...français, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, perhaps half a dozen others-leaped beyond the traditional 19th century tale in a few quick, bright strokes. Although they were short on narrative, the pieces proved startlingly fresh, almost hallucinatory in their vividness, yet anchored in wit and ruthless reportage...
...Francisco Opera's new production of Amilcare Ponchielli's sprawling, lurid La Gioconda last September was a vast undertaking, and PBS station KCET had the wit to record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening NightThe Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right...
...star of Terry by Terry, if such an invidious term might be allowed, is Robertson Dean, the Terry of Terry Rex. Whining, puling, sparkling with intelligence and wit, posturing like a talented playwright who was once a very bad high school actor, Dean provokes the paradoxical mixture of sympathy and loathing the role calls for--he is us, but we don't have to like him for it. Lisa Sloan is marvelously attractive and genuine as Kathy Marianne Owen, a consummate actress when intact, is literally hobbled by a huge cast on her leg that forces her to lumber around...