Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although McCurdy's coaching record has made him a Harvard legend, his quick wit has earned him a reputation as one of its most colorful personalities After an impressive third place showing in the GBCs earlier this season, the Crimson coach quipped. "It's a moral victory, but I'm not a moral man, so I'm not very happy...
...these players decide to go pro? It can't be that they think they will be more admired. How could they? The NBA is an infinitely less classy outfit. Instead of announcers with the wit and charm of Billy Packer, the pros give us Johnny Most, the man with more chins than he has irritating phrases...
Condon's stylish prose and rich comedic gift once again spice a moral sensibility that has animated 16 novels since The Manchurian Candidate appeared in 1962. If wit and irony could somehow neutralize villainy, the novelist would make a fine FBI director. Prizzi's Honor, like most of his books, comes sometimes too close to the truth for comfort, and it has what many may regard as a shocking end. On the other hand, the crime family survives, its billions and precious omerta intact. And that, Richard Condon points out, makes it "the all-American success story...
...Neal occasionally overcomes the film's limitations; his timing is good--though not his lines, which are penned by La Cage Aux Folles' Francis Veber. La Cage dealt with effeminate homosexual homebodies, too. But Veber fails to recapture any of that film's charm and wit. Most important, Veber presented the characters in La Cage affectionately. Partners is, if anything, mean-spirited. It doesn't introduce a single homosexual who isn't rendered weak-kneed or babbling by O'Neal's chest, eyes or "fabulous" thighs...
...days run by, decoyed by it. Even in getting up, we expect breakfast. Then there is Monday . .. and Saturday ... and Christmas ... There is a continual tiny date with activity. Or-if we are left in a pool of silence-let's cut our nails." With the grace of wit and no chalkboard sermonizing, Enid Bagnold tells us to stop cutting our nails and gaze into the silent pool of revelation. - By T.E. Kalem