Word: witness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pencil scratchwork may in the end have no choice but to download the puzzle from the Times's Web site. Still, the principle behind the crossword will remain the same that it has been since its inception at the beginning of the century: a daily challenge of knowledge and wit for those who need some mental downtime or distraction from the banalities of daily life and work. Whether we're taking about train-bound commuters or bored students in Sanders Theatre, there will always be a market for minds in need of a good game. And the beauty...
...content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while we made no pretension to wit, we hope not to be dull. There will be several poems and lighter sketches to prevent any impressions of heaviness...
...Smith has boundary issues, to wit: "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper...
...15th year of her affliction, her 90th of living, she has become an exhibit in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Come see the former junior high school English teacher, wit, storyteller and singer to children transformed before your very eyes into a sphinx. Yet she is still a great beauty, ladies and gentlemen. The silver hair, the smooth pink skin. Go ahead and touch her. She won't bite. (Then again, she might...
...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Using court records, newspaper accounts, diaries and other historical documents, writer-director Moises Kaufman re-creates the courtroom battles that destroyed the career (and ultimately the life) of the late-Victorian playwright, wit and homosexual bon vivant. The cleverly stylized history lesson, playing off-Broadway and in San Francisco, is also a poignant study of an artist brought down as much by his own hubris as an intolerant society...