Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy in which comments range from soaring praise ("a masterpiece of pleasing self-irony," "no less profound for its easy wit and beauty") to bruising brickbats ("a sterile disaster," "it stinks"). No one, it seems, is neutral...
Against this background stands Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Echoes of many of his predecessors and colleagues can be found here and there in his work, although he lacks the resigned elegance and orthodox Christianity of Eliot, the homespun philosophy of Frost, the intellectual subtlety of Stevens, the wit of Auden, the wild...
Ordinarily, General Motors Chairman Fred Donner keeps his wit to himself. Last week, after Donner and G.M. President James M. Roche delivered their annual state-of-the-company report to stockholders, the chairman was needled by critics about the size of his salary and bonus (a total $790,000 last year...
With luck, The Happening might have happened to be a passable picture. But Director Elliot Silverstein, forgetting everything he learned on Cat Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...
Most of all, Carson is a master of the cozy pace and mood that he believes are appropriate for the muzzy midnight hours. Unlike Paar, he avoids meet-the-press-style interviewing, and never goes beyond his intellectual depth. Neither does he use his terrible swift wit to cut down his guests. One night, Zsa Zsa Gabor hogged the show terribly. While Carson will sometimes needle her to her face ("Any girl who has a drip-dry wedding dress...