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RANDY NEWMAN: LAND OF DREAMS (Reprise). Lacerating spiritual autobiography and unsparing social wit. Pretty good whorehouse piano...
...WONDER YEARS (ABC) The nostalgia is ladled on a bit thick, but this wry, affectionate comedy about a twelve-year-old's angst in the late '60s has wit and insight -- and the most believable family scenes...
...this moment, you know that Working Girl is a fond anthology of old Hollywood's romantic comedies. The film's plot may parse like All About Eve from the scheming Eve's point of view, but its heart is with every '30s heroine who must conquer class prejudice -- with wit, charm, bravado and a little larceny -- before she can win the nice guy away from the mapcap heiress. At first, Griffith's pudginess and baby-doll voice appear to disqualify her from the company of Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur and other down- to-earth goddesses of the golden...
...scholarships and SAT scores are used as the definitive barometers of an individual's ability to think and reason, more than as measures of what has been learned in a classroom. This has the unfortunate result of making intelligence only a matter of education, and downplays the roles of wit, imagination and curiosity as equal indications of intelligence and character not generally measured by cold academic statistics...
...days of Muhammed, boxing was the greatest of sports and Ali was the king. He brought to the sport his arrogance and his wit, his showmanship and his deadly punches. He brought to it controversy (his refusal to participate in the Vietnam War) and poetry ("float like a butterfly, sting like...