Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trailblazer in entertaining, eager-to-offend conservatism was William F. Buckley Jr. in the early '60s. His cutting wit had the patina of moral certitude, in a fight his liberal opponents were often too genteel to win. Buckley's heirs (William Safire, Buchanan, P.J. O'Rourke) helped lift from Republicans the stigma of the pruney banker. On the radio side, conservative talk also had '50s and '60s pioneers: cantankerous Joe Pine and Bob Grant. Grant and Limbaugh, who have broadcast back to back on New York City's WABC since 1988, have set the limits -- one growly, the other comic...
...Shakespeare, brevity may be the soul of wit, but to the Harvard Square faithful, there was nothing pointedly funny about the brief message posted on the door of Elsie's Sand-wich Shop late last month...
Kushner's baroque dialogue is too often mind boggling rather than thought provoking. It doesn't help that he has his characters talk with distracting Slavic accents -- illogical in any case, since they are all speaking their native tongue. Slavs! is not without wit, and it is only a one-acter, but as Kushner's first play since Angels, it is one act's worth of disappointment...
Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), the Tory party whip who had schemed his way to the prime ministry in House of Cards, returned to battle a reformist King of England (Michael Kitchen) in a sequel that nearly matched the original in savage wit...
Just after announcing that he was retiring his daily syndicated cartoon, Gary Larson brought his mordant wit to TV for the first time in this weird, wordless animated special. Highlight: a sentimental wolf weeps over home movies. Unearthly and wonderful...