Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then I noticed something on TV for the first time: amid the reporters covering the event were two whom I recognized as members of the foreign press corps, both known for their jaundiced eye and acid wit. My heart sank. It suddenly occurred to me that having spent days watching our politicians make prime-time fools of themselves, we Americans were soon going to have to listen to Europeans lecture us on how immature and naive we are. We heard it during Watergate, and we'd hear it again now: Grow up, America! Start behaving like a superpower instead...
Monster in a Box is truly a theatrical achievement. Gray mesmerizes the audience with his story, intelligence and wit. Gray tells us of how he asked one Hollywood producer why he wanted to talk to him. The producer replied that he had seen Gray's monologue movie, "Swimming to Cambodia," and said, "I never thought I could listen to one person talk for two hours. Least of all another man." But Gray pulled it off for that producer, and after listening to Gray for two hours in Monster in a Box, one can only agree with that producer's opinion...
Gray mesmerizez the audience with his story his wit...
...provide a happy, even triumphant solution to the dilemma, full of hats and horns and two birthday cakes. But, really, that's just dessert to a film that offers much chewy food for thought. The comforting dream of communion at the end can't erase the picture's careful wit about good people in desperate situations or, especially, the wan isolation shadowing a boy who knows his genius has made him alien. Says French filmmaker Louis Malle: "Jodie's film is basically about the profound loneliness of childhood, and she's dealt with it head-on. I would be very...
...federal bureaucrat, Hoover had thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister before he was hired by the Justice Department as a clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often...