Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish-list for the future are perfecting his French in order to better read Rousseau and teaching a course on wit and humor in literature...
When he was young, he sensed a false view of life being preached by British conservatism, and he turned his considerable wit against it; as he grew older, he sniffed out totalitarian impulses emanating from the left and opposed them too. Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance...
...comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining the rage and wild wit of their peers who feel swamped in helplessness. The party's over, slackers. From now on, you're Degeneration...
...first half of the play, A is a dotty old woman, a shadow of her former self, though the stories she recounts intimate what she was like when she was younger. Traces remain of the imperious manner, regal bearing and caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish...
...television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline in the City) are in that vein. Fox at least had the wit to set Partners, one if its twentysomething shows, in San Francisco. But then again, its ratings stink...