Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fellow journalists at TIME last week talked fondly about his love of learning and his effortless wit that was without malice. "Michael helped prevent us from taking everything, including ourselves, too seriously," recalled one. During his last illness, Michael courageously came to work, sometimes walking with a cane. On a day when he didn't need it, he commented wryly, "No pain, no cane." In the latter months of 1990, Michael was conducting interviews for a future story about the resurgence of Goddess worship, talking to people around the country who could help assess the movement...
...reveal who people are; it shows what they are trying to be. If they are adept at using themselves and others, they will shine. And Madonna -- who has played more roles in a decade of camera courtship than Katharine Hepburn has in 60 years of movie stardom -- radiates luxe, wit and common sense playing a semi-real character based on a fiction named Madonna...
Attitude goes a long way in show business, and the cast of What the Butler Saw certainly embodied the idea of positive thinking. They combined wit and energy with a humorous dose of high-handedness to make this production outstanding...
Beckett was a friend and occasional secretary of his countryman and fellow High Modernist James Joyce, and Beckett's text echoes that author's characteristic wit and precision. In a sense the play is a dramatic translation of Joyce's project--the static narration of a moment of consciousness, undertaken merely for its own sake, without regard for the conventional rules of narrative or dramatic representation...
...Kurds don't need talk, they need practical action. It should not be beyond the wit of man to get planes there with tents, food and warm blankets. It is not a question of standing on legal niceties. We should...