Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn of the millennium, but this year as every year, students will try to outwit their teaching fellows and professors, graders will appreciate wit and originality in a huge stack of bluebooks and, by February, the marks will be entered and the academic cycle will begin anew. Indeed, some things never change...
...arrest of hyperfrenetic rapper BUSTA RHYMES in New York City last week fueled the imagination of pun-happy journalists, who showcased their wit with such headlines as BUSTA BUSTED, BUSTA CRIMES and BUSTED RHYMES. Police had observed the singer driving erratically in Manhattan, pulled him over and found a loaded, unregistered pistol in the back seat as well as a small amount of marijuana in the pocket of Busta's manager and passenger, Gerald Odom. Both men were charged with possession of a weapon; Odom was also charged with possession of marijuana. Released on their own recognizance, the two will...
...genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots are standard-issue situation comedy (Dad gets laid off, Mom mounts a chaotic production of The King and I), but in the pilot script, at least, MacFarlane's pell-mell wit recalls The Simpsons' fevered early-'90s creative peak. Punch lines spill out furiously as the show spirals into multilayered flashbacks and inventive fantasies (when Peter wonders whether to lie to his wife, for instance, the angel and the devil that duel cunningly over his shoulders turn out to have angels...
This collection of random musings from the monologist-actress and chic wit again makes the case that Bernhard's brand of observational humor is like no one else's. In her new work, Bernhard draws on her boundless imagination to pay homage to her housepainter, Jewish mysticism and Brenda Vaccaro while conjuring up ad campaigns for Mother Teresa-inspired day wear. Do we mind that Bernhard's reflections can be a bit too solipsistic, a bit over the top? Nope...
...stock and transvestites, he wonders at his fortune in being gainfully employed at all, he declines the title of an artiste, and he is constantly more delighted than deprecating. Not fame, not fortune, not even cliche, will change the remembrance that in Reading, England, he was "a gay half-wit with no future...