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Word: witness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Impudence and Malice Pass for Wit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congreve | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...theory of endemic political corruption, which read as seditious in 1962, now feels like the sweet breath of reason. Few movies attempt to anatomize a whole sick society, to dissect the mortal betrayals of country, friend, lover and family; fewer films achieve this goal with such energy and wit. Voters will make their own choices this year, but for moviegoers the election is over. This Candidate delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Failure to Cult Classic | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Kate Simon's travel books and her autobiographical portraits, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World, are admired for their good sense, wit and pithy grace. These qualities serve her well as a popular historian of a period that has set the Western world's standards for art, culture, cynical statecraft and consumer spending. The legacy of the Italian Renaissance is never far from contemporary tastes; its style and egocentricities survive wherever easy money, ambition and ideas flourish. Lofty mindedness and low animal cunning rarely had a better stage on which to interact. As Simon puts it, "The susurrus of silks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Godfathers a Renaissance Tapestry: the Gonzaga of Mantua | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...Reynolds is amiable and, for once, animated as Turner's boss, who will hide a convict in a photocopy machine to protect his exclusive. Christopher Reeve brings a nice macho wimpitude to the role of her new beau -- he's Clark Kent with a preening ego. And Turner, her wit percolating through that great womanly laugh, struts in high style. Now if only the movie could match her suave maneuvering. That would be front-page news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weakened Update: THE FRONT PAGE | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Remember that old book, the Wit and Wisdom of Walter Mondale? It was 200 pages--all blank...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Wit and Wisdom | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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