Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARBRA STREISAND: PEOPLE (Columbia). Streisand has so much zest that when she sings the blues (Supper Time), they sound strictly temporary. Her special forte is in kindling the first flying sparks of an affair (People) and feeding the quickening flames with tenderness (I'm All Smiles) or wit (When in Rome, Love Is a Bore...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...part ownership in a shopping center-and bankruptcy, moral and fiscal. Finally, while penning another doorstopper to pay off his debt to a Swiss bank, he catches pneumonia. "Apparently fell into the stream while trying to make it to the road with his manuscript," says the doctor with innocent wit. In the book, the author dies, but in the movie he survives-presumably to prove that a doomed genius has as much right to live as anybody...
...characters. Harvard audiences tend to watch the performance more than the person, and the actors are all too conscious of this. They get isolated laughs with the delivery of individual lines, instead of letting their humorousness emerge slowly. In a comedy of characters, rather than one of wit, this can be fatal. Darryl Palmer's Medvedenko, for example, never becomes more than a caricatured schoolteacher: we never feel his pain...
Glow of Happiness. Typically, Waugh "follows the old fashion" of autobiography and begins not with himself but his ancestors. With warmth, wit and antiquarian zeal he traces them through four generations of the solid, comfortably moneyed professional class that saw the flowering of the British Empire. Waugh himself was born near London in 1903, given the name Evelyn "from a whim of my mother's. I have never liked the name." He borrows an anecdote from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from...