Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conspicuously low profile during the Harris case, not uttering a word at oral arguments or writing any portion of the decision. As for Hill, the decision was welcome news. "The harasser does not have the right to harass to the point at which the woman is at her wit's end," Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, told TIME last week. "To the extent that's business as usual, that has ended...
...commercial transfer. A key factor: ecstatic reviews from this generation of critics, who are unaccustomed to the musical bounty that greeted their predecessors three decades ago. They adored the once standard and now quaint format of a - straightforward love story, the shamelessly hummable melodies, the elegant wit of the dialogue and lyrics...
...wit: Chapter 1 (thesis) shares its titlewith the book. It includes such double-entendre,pun treasures as "Dogs are very direct aboutwanting to go out," Dogs admit when they'rejealous," and "You can train a dog." Some are goodfor a chuckle, particularly when they parody humanself-help tomes--("The Courage to Heel") orpsychobabble ("I'm feeling very conflicted aboutthis new dog you keep talking about bringing home.On one paw, I want a playmate. One the otherpaw...
...fraction of the Faculty in attendance--not normally noted for its collected quick wit--paused. Then everyone laughed...
Thirty years later, the now much older Arlis Sweeney still hears the crying of that baby in his nightmares. Arlis deals novelty vending machines in Texas, travelling from site to site in his pickup and sleeping in road-side motels. Fate brings him together wit a runaway housewife, Kay Davies (Meg Ryan), with whom he eventually falls in love and takes on as a travelling-companion and lover. It is only when he discovers that Kay is that baby whose family his father slaughtered so long ago that the entire gravitas of the situation propels the story crazily forward...