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...once offered Shirley MacLaine a glimpse of his wry wit and burning anger. When he sat next to the famously pro-China actress at a White House state dinner in January 1979, she thanked him for the gracious reception she enjoyed in China in the early '70s. Deng, who had been in exile at that time, replied without a moment's pause, "The people who were your hosts then are in jail...
...world dominated by alienation and decay, the collection of Rodney Smith photographs at the Pucker Gallery is like a breath of fresh air. His photography is simple and expressive, but with a touch of wit. Compared with the in-your-face, shocking, ephemeral art produced today, Smith's photographs seem very out of place. Classical in their composition and serene in their mood, each of them invites us to stop and reflect...
...serious disappointment of the show was its length: the four skits add up to barely an hour's worth of entertainment. The original All in the Timing consisted of six one-act comedies. McCarter and Stein showed that they could transfer Ives's pointed and poetic wit to the stage. But they should have attempted to present more skits from the collection. Fortunately, the four skits they chose provided a well-acted and entertaining exercise for the mind...
...scene opens: you're in the drawing room of a simple yet elegant English cottage, the soothing strains of Ella singing "Always" wafting in the background, fresh flowers on the table and a decanter of wine waiting for you. Suddenly, from stage left, caustic British wit slices through the air and shatters the soft stillness. This, my friends, is a Noel Coward play...
...crossover pioneer, sexy and gorgeous, who forced the public to rethink its view of his form of entertainment. But there was more to Muhammad Ali than his amazing cunning in the ring; more than his reputation as the most charming showboater in boxing history, with an impish rhyming wit that had the power of both butterfly and bee. As Spike Lee says of Ali in the enthralling new documentary When We Were Kings, "He fused politics and sport...