Word: witnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough to create clever scenarios with some sort of reason to them; in the best sequence of the film, he conjures up a planet inhabited by intelligent body parts, but has the wit to craft a discordant societal structure around them. Earl takes up with the planet’s population of tiny-limbed noses, and together they battle tongues, lips, thumbs marching stoutly in formation, and eyes riding hands and feet into battle, their toes and fingers blazing like machine guns. Ultimately...
...D.O.A.," though she rebounded quickly and "Got Male" with Russell Crowe. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger made the mistake of starring in The Marrying Man. Oh, my! Still, no previous celebrity breakup has provided such absurd opportunities for media punning as the demise of Tom and Nicole. To wit...
...Johnson to Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. What makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...
...What was Crosby's secret? The seamlessness, the integrity of the package: His smooth, pleasant face perfectly suited his smooth, pleasant voice and the casual wit of his professional personality. One would call the Crosby style debonair, if the word didn't suggest class. Bing was of every class and none; his trick was to elevate the Joe Average attitude to a kind of masculine chic. It was an attitude, of a man at ease with himself and his success, that would help him dominate entertainment until the '50s. In pop-cultural history - Jolson to Crosby to Elvis - Bing...
...script with their own bavardage, as usually supplied by the writers on the staffs of their radio shows. These weren't precisely ad-libs, but then this wasn't jazz, it was comedy. The point wasn't to be witty on the spot; it was to suggest an offhand wit that whispered to the audience: Nothing matters, it's only a movie. The blitheness was in keeping with Bing's radio personality, and probably with his real one. Bing enjoyed a genuine or seeming ad-lib; sometimes he'd use it like a mantra. In January 1950 Louis Armstrong...