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...legal aspects of this introduction of testimony were swiftly forgotten. "General" Ben G. McKenzie, rustic wit of the prosecution counsel, offered his view of Evolution: ". . . they [Evolutionists] want to put words in God's mouth and have Him to say that He issued some sort of protoplasm, or soft dishrag, and put it in the ocean and said: 'Old boy, if you wait about 6,000 years I will make something...
...courses on American and African American literature, while Bernbaum Professor of English and American Literature and Language Leo Damrosch teaches versions of his Harvard courses, Literature and Arts A-72, “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” and English 185, “Wit and Humor...
...mostly the roots of The Island are to be found in every (presumptive) summer blockbuster you ever saw, especially the futuristic ones--or decided, upon mature reflection, not to see. To give Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) his due, there's a certain wit and splash (or should we make that splat?) in his action sequences--nice stuff with a flying motorcycle and a surprise-filled sequence in which the leads are hanging onto a skyscraper sign that's losing its moorings. But for all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design...
...wit, Linklater says he would be willing to do an action movie. Or a sequel to School of Rock, or a third installment of Before Sunrise, perhaps the lowest-grossing movie ever to spur a sequel. "We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people," he says, taking swings in his office with his aluminum bat. He thinks it's about a fear of failure. In the test audiences for the film, the kids were glad the Bears don't win the championship game, whereas parents weren...
...woman and an actress of awesome gifts. Spotted playing a minor role in a Chicago revival of the play, she has an unusual talent for concentrating her emotions--and an audience's--in her signing. But there is something more here, an ironic intelligence, a fierce but not distancing wit, that the movies, with their famous ability to photograph thought, discover in very few performances. Children of a Lesser God, though given a handsome openness in Director Haines' production, cannot transcend the banalities of the play. But Matlin does. She is, one might say, a miracle worker...