Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
Moscow, which they fear will reduce them to second-class status, to their misgivings over Viet Nam. But the Vice President acquitted himself with wit, charm and persuasiveness...
...billing). But so popular was Jones with Connoisseur King Charles that Jonson was forced to retire from court. Jones continued to rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...
Died. Sir William Neil Connor, 57, British columnist better known as "Cas sandra," who for 31 years in the London Daily Mirror cut and thrust with fine partiality and fierce wit at everything from Germany to Radio Moscow and Joe McCarthy, plus sports, doctors, dogs, commercial TV and many of its performers; after a long illness; in London. Cassandra once described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love." And thereupon Liberace sued for libel and won a $22,400 judgment...
...autobiographical fragment, Chiaroscuro, or as bogus as in Aldous Huxley's satirical portrait of him as "John Bidlake" in Point Counter Point. Nicolette writes well, with a painter's eye for places and faces and a feminine instinct for character. These qualities plus Irish wit lend a novelistic point to her portraits of some great period figures...