Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman who is happy about having had an abortion. I have met women who are relieved that a child isn't being brought into this world who will have to rely on a mother who isn't going to be there, who has not the means or the wit to raise a child...
...tactic of tarring whole movements with extreme examples? Yes. Does the distinction between fairness and exaggeration matter? Yes -- every bit as much as it does in any other arena of politics or show biz. Says Buckley, first in the modern line of conservatives who mixed sharp opinions with cutting wit: "Anybody who engages in polemics is, to an extent, engaging in hyperbole. But that's as American as a tall tale of Mark Twain...
...manages to get on the tram going downtown (disguised all the while as a proper baguette). At your generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair of wit and beauty so seductively titled in French, your coffee is cold. It stares up at you with glum foreboding, challenging you to consume. The courage is not within you. The newspaper is casually opened, and you avoid the glances of fellow patrons who negotiated their eating with more success...
...seems that the most telling political humor only establishes itself under authoritarian regimes: the weight of government peering over the shoulders of the citizens of communist states drives the etiolated spirit to renewal via satire. Satire's effectiveness is one nurtured in tiny Smoke-filled rooms, where combatants of wit can exchange furtive one-liners knowing that Big Brother has temporarily been shut out. Dilute the genre with television and viewing figures and you get an insipid attempt at such humor, because, hey kids, it's really not that controversial. You are not going to be spending a night...
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