Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Alice Roosevelt Longworth died last week at 96, Washington remembered her as a woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit that prompted her to keep in her upstairs sitting room a pillow embroidered with the message, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
...Mabel, wit' all 'is money an 'is big fancy cars an 'is wimmen cryin' about 'ow depressed 'e is. Gawd in 'eaven, am I supposed to feel sorry for 'im?" As always, Peter Sellers' power of observation and his ability to recount what he sees with satirical wit had saved him. But for one fleeting moment he had turned the mirror inward toward himself instead of outward toward a world of strangers. And suddenly he was himself as human and vulnerable, as comically real, as he makes them seem...
...ride is occasionally brilliant. Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...
...Golden Eye. This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination. Wise Blood is based on Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism and surrealistic wit. Huston takes to O'Connor's hothouse style like a gambler to a royal flush. The inevitable results are the very essence of weird...
Customarily, writers of thrillers take themselves seriously and their public lightly. In Who's on First the fables are turned. The author's vocabulary and wit show a high regard for his audience. It is William F. Buckley whom he takes humorously. And so, in the end, must the reader. -Peter Stoler