Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Genie, by Robin Williams) offers to sell the viewer a "combination hookah and coffee maker -- also makes julienne fries," Aladdin is a ravishing thrill ride pulsing at MTV-video tempo. You have to go twice -- and that's a treat, not a chore -- to catch the wit in the decor, the throwaway gags, the edges of the action. Blink, and you'll miss the pile of "discount fertilizer" Aladdin's pursuers land in; or the fire eater with an upset stomach; or half of Williams' convulsing asides. Chuck Jones' verdict is judicious: Aladdin is "the funniest feature ever made...
...deeply moving drama about the wrenching breakup of a gay relationship in New York's Greenwich Village. Played out against the soaring arias of the rare Maria Callas recording that gives the play its title, The Lisbon Traviata exposes the hearts and lives of its four searching characters with wit, brilliance and passion. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln Str., Newton Highlands. Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Fridays at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Call 332-1646 for more information...
Perot's specialty is clothing demagoguery with a semblance -- sometimes even a facsimile -- of wit and down-to-earth common sense. His call to "shared sacrifice" resonates with the nation's history ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") and lends a certain credibility to his painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious...
...first, Schweitzer said, he tried to sell his book proposal to New York City publishers, but for three years "nobody was interested." At "wit's end," he turned to an old friend in official Washington, State Department official Richard Armitage, then at the Pentagon. But when Schweitzer offered his services, he was turned down. "I had to force Ted down the throats of the intelligence bureacracy," says a Defense Intelligence Agency official. The agency soon reversed itself, and under the code name Swamp Ranger, set Schweitzer to screen the Hanoi archives, copying enormous numbers of documents...
...optimistic note about the future. The one thing of which I am entirely certain is that she did not feel ready to die. At the age of 44, there were still many things she wanted to do and was going to do. Always radiant and with a very sharp wit, she befriended ecologists and other activists worldwide...