Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only ones sure to be hurt are those viewers who can't get used to the nosy, nausea-invoking camera style in the movie's fake documentary format. Take some Dramamine, folks. Then savor the desperate wit and the sharp acting -- especially that of Davis, who executes high comedy with the world's tensest mouth, and Farrow, doggedly searching for an Adam in a new Eden...
...About You, like Love and War, is too self-consciously verbal on the subject of sex, but it has more self-deprecating wit. She: "It doesn't bother you that we haven't had sex in five days? What's going on with us?" He: "What's going on is that we're married five months and the sexual part . . . is over. I thought you understood that...
...damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express a desire for social upheaval, Speech and Arrested Development clearly believe their...
...shows' staffs charge each other with demanding first dibs on the most desirable stars. Dennis Miller, whose talk show was canceled after six months of low ratings and C-list guests, blames The Tonight Show for strong-arm booking tactics. David Letterman, NBC's later- night wit who couldn't conceal his chagrin at being snubbed for Johnny Carson's job, now has other networks and syndicators strewing his restless passage with blank checks. NBC has already retained Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey as Letterman's potential replacement...
...bass, drums and keyboards, and with a loud scream put the pedal to the metal and once again blaze their own road. Some of the songs are indeed catchy, but don't expect them to become Top 40 fodder, as neither the band's turbulent sound nor its acerbic wit has been sacrificed...