Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alka-Seltzer series. For years, "Speedy Alka-Seltzer," the cartoon imp with a tablet for a hat, insulted audiences by pushing the fizz as though he were conducting a Romper Room class. Then the Jack Tinker agency took over the account and decided to try for a touch of wit and realism: a film showing nothing more than a quick succession of people's midriffs being prodded and pushed, or just merrily jouncing along. The message was: "No matter what shape your stomach's in, when it gets out of shape, take Alka-Seltzer." Along Madison Avenue, the film became...
...Clyde was released, is used solely as a clotheshorse out for a long gambol. Giving his film a "now" look and his characters an ironic, detached air, Director Jewison obviously hoped to play his movie cool. But there are several degrees between cool and frigid: a degree of wit, a degree of plot and a degree of that old unbuyable, style. Their absence stops the movie cold...
...BOYS IN THE BAND. Playwright Mart Crowley's characters are first of all wonderfully human and secondarily, homosexual. Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Cliff Gorman lead a sharply honed cast through dialogue of lacerating wit and excruciating humor...
William Maitland is a 39-year-old London solicitor who has gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits...
...rather pleasurable belles-lettres excursion into nostalgia, not a profound exercise in self-revelation. Taken as such, it is rarely dull. In this book at least, written partly in 1931 and picked up again after World War II, Russell is still a master prose stylist and an elegant wit, with a bitchy touch of the Wilde...