Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just so. The Kennedy whom Hamilton pieces together from interviews, letters and memoirs is a blithe cynic whose wit and charm are substitutes for intimacy. "Were you ever in love?" a woman asks him later in his life. His smooth answer: "No, though often very interested...
...knee-jerk, New York-edged hostility can be grating. (Superman is dead. "Good. I hate him.") What makes it palatable, however, is Stern's hyperbolic wit and a disarming undercurrent of self-deprecation. Stern, who is married and has two children, with a third on the way, often makes disparaging comments about his own looks and his undersized sexual organ. He may be radio's biggest egomaniac, but the insecure Long Island kid who had trouble getting girls is never far from the surface...
...degrees at both Dartmouth and Oxford in interdisciplinary studies -- history, philosophy, politics, economics -- and earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under a letterhead proclaiming himself the "Thorstein Veblen Wizard of Political Economy." To the criticism that few of the insights in his books are original, friends say Reich considers synthesis as important as discovery. As he once wrote in another context, "Often, greater rewards flow...
...whose wit and literary flair kept an audience of 400 in Sever 113 enraptured for over an hour, compared the Palestinian/Israeli conflict to Shakespeare's "Hamlet...
Leguizamo, 28, comes from the streets. Born in Bogota and raised in New York City, he prides himself on mixing quick wit and acute perception with the cadences and carriage of a tenement tough. After a string of movies, including the forthcoming big-budget fantasy thriller Super Mario Brothers (from which, he claims, he was "almost fired for coming across too Hispanic"), he is back onstage thumbing his nose both at bourgeois ethnic critics and at what he sees as pervasive racism in the mainstream with the defiantly titled Spic-O-Rama...