Word: witness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of any political agenda that might emerge from the book, Travels with Lizbeth remains a deeply personal account of a man trying to maintain his autonomy and humanity despite increasingly dehumanizing circumstances. Eighner observes his surroundings with an intelligence and wit that clearly mark the individuality and self-respect that enabled him to survive. Eighner's wry sense of humor allows him to stand back and analyze his experiences with perspicacity and insight, avoiding any melodramatic pathos that could cloud his realistic portrait of life on the streets...
...while keeping things tightly wound, he gives his actors plenty of room to breathe the heady air of his dialogue, with all its wit and thoughtfulness punctuated by obscenity. Says producer Lawrence Bender, who for a miserly $8.2 million mounted this glossy production (including a '50s-style restaurant set so cool that some backers want to franchise it): "It's the kind of dialogue that's so organic, you can chew, eat and digest...
...holding, in the words of writer Duane Swierczynski, "another hot young thing"--a baby lion cub. She appeared at a suburban Barnes and Noble to meet the masses and was almost mauled by a group of angry Bryn Mawr women. They were, by the end, suitably impressed by her wit and sharp mind, according to Nancy Zimbelli, director of promotions for the store. "She's a smart cookie," Zimbelli raved...
...Poet lived a life divided by elation and sorrow, each emotion intensifying the glory or bitterness of the other. Fortified by fiery wit and fiery whiskey, Oscar Wilde tackled the foibles of Victorian society with equal panache at the Albermarle Club and Reading Jail. As poet, dramatist, novelist, and aesthete, Wilde succeeded in expressing through his writing the myriad emotions he experienced and observed in the world around...
...half hours of his discourse, on the other hand, quickly became uninteresting cloying and even a bit self-indulgent. Of course, there were occasional bright moments laced with wit and humor...