Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After wading through the turgid prose of Peninsula's most recent issue, I realized that it attracts particularly rabid ideologues who seem utterly unable to infuse any of their pieces with even a hint of wit, irony or intelligence. It is that failure, not just their offensive rantings, which constitutes the real obscenity. --Lorraine A. Lezama The writer is a former Crimson editorialist...
Quickly, however, Adam seemed to get frustrated with my short replies, and I got tired of trying to match his biting wit. Despite his incivility, there was little question that Adam's e-mail was more spirited than mine. So I went back to my reading...
...lofts and hangouts of New York City's Lower East Side. When she joined her slides to a sound track of French torch songs, gloom pop and Kurt Weill--music where the balance between real and false pathos was always shifting--the whole thing took on a desolate wit. Here were some buzz-cut kids cocked for trouble. There was a woman sorting herself out in a washroom mirror. Here was another rumpled bed, with another rumpled boyfriend. Hey! A home movie for the dispossessed...
...STUMP WIT...
DIED. WALTER KERR, 83, Pulitzer-prizewinning New York Times drama critic respected for his wit, integrity and far-ranging knowledge of the theater; in Dobbs Ferry, New York...