Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wit, natire, had abot tilliness of British actor director Jonathan Miller yesterday delighted more than 70 people who heard him discuss his carrer as well as comment on America and the arts...
...events of our century," Freud's discovery of the unconscious, is presented much like a TV series, a splicing of Masterpiece Theater and The Roadrunner Hour. It features hordes of comic-strip Nazis goose-stepping into the life of the Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked...
...Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with it a passionate conviction of the importance of craftsmanship and inventiveness of design, aligned to a celebration of the virtues of wit and fantasy applied to everyday objects that still has a relevance to the design of today." -By Michael Demarest...
...trendy and hot. They may sustain their recognition, of they may slip from view. At this writing, about the hottest, trendiest artist in SoHo is Laurie Anderson." Later in the essay he accomplishes the almost impossible task of negating one of his statements in the same sentence. "But her wit clearly entrances her audiences, and has helped secure her reputation. So has the very fact that she is a woman, although that alone explains little, since there are a lot of women composers these days, especially downtown" Rockwell's attitude bespeaks tokenism, and no wonder. Anderson-who is a quite...
...Mondale certainly has presidential looks. He is an attractive, boyish-looking man, with a beaked nose, a nasal-baritone voice, and graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called...