Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to see deficit countries -- to wit, the United States -- move on fiscal deficits and fight protectionism. And we'd like to see surplus countries generating as much growth as possible, consistent with maintaining the gains the world has made against inflation...
...Kennedy and Johnson years. He has never lost his taste for mixing it up in the public economic debate. An engaging speaker, he is also one of the few economists who can write good English. His popular essays and book reviews leaven economic analysis with a dry, cutting wit. "Only someone with a sense of humor could survive reading this book," he began a review of George Gilder's The Entrepreneur as Hero in the New Republic. "And no one with any trace of a sense of humor could have written...
...recent interview, director John Hancock '61 and actor John Toles-Bey spoke about Weeds, their latest film. Soft-spoken Hancock chose his words carefully. Toles-Bey betrayed his background as a Venice Beach street performer with a quick and easy wit. Hancock was forthcoming on the subject of Weeds' portrayals of prisoners, women and Blacks, which some critics say enforce widely held stereotypes...
...Mozart Brothers tries without success to impress its viewers with its audacity, wit, and eroticism. Suzanne Osten may have had it in mind to emulate the metaphysical musings of such directors as Carlos Suara, who directed the innovative Carmen, but she has completely missed her mark. Her film turns out to be a dull mishmash of tasteless scenes and plodding plot...
...Chuck Berry made both. For he defined the music, moods, moves and malevolence of rock 'n' roll. His twangy blues guitar fused -- indeed, electrified -- rhythm and blues and country music, even as his popularity helped desegregate early rock. His lyrics rollicked with internal rhymes, subversive satire and a wit that bent and broadened the language. He demolished the pop-music wall that had long separated singer and songwriter; now a man could perform his own compositions and do it with amazing sass. He could do wrong too, and here again Berry was a pioneer. Through decades of one-night stands...