Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart, Wall Street and Broadcast News are comedies too, with high energy levels to match their milieus and enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s. Wall Street Director Oliver Stone and Co- Author Stanley Weiser (Project X) get their manic mileage from the gaudy argot of today's power brokers, principally one Gordon Gekko, a black knight who proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat...
...days of the young are numbered, usually with boring arithmetic drills. Bert Kitchen enlivens those routines by granting the digits wit and style. From one to ten, and then in larger leaps, Animal Numbers (Dial; $11.95) presents fauna with their offspring: a kangaroo and one joey, for example; a swan and two cygnets; a setter and ten puppies. A visit to this overflowing menagerie adds up to swift and painless math (and biology) lessons...
...Wit, strategy, and the pleasures of the flesh have marked this year's version of the Secret Santa tradition, as students scheme to delight their unwitting "Santees" with imaginative gift-giving...
Throughout the production, Tomarken and Karney convey a wonderful chemistry. Tomarken plays Bennett with just the right combination of effeminate flair and brooding passion. His pensive sighs and pouty fits would make even Hamlet a little envious. Karney's Judd provides comic relief with his caustic wit. At one point Judd deadpans "I don't have to try. I am clever...
...congratulate Abigail McGanney for her eloquent and pithy article of last Saturday. With wit and elegance she champions the "experimental" cause in Harvard Theater, condemning the conservative elite and its oppressive, narrow-minded approach to the creative process. Her careful research helped her understand most of the intricate issues she brings together in her article. Her quotation of me, both accurate and in context, very successfully makes me look the fool...