Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray world. It begged for a wit that evokes nostalgia and distress, and Bennett became its not-quite-lyric poet: the bardof the drab...
...understand Epps' concern. Fraternities just don't display the high intellectual standards and brilliant wit of the final clubs. We've yet to see any Sigma Chi pledges dressed like sperm or carrying their chickens to class...
Jordan modestly characterizes Shear Madness as "just a fun, silly, enjoyable night out." But this fizzy burlesque is plenty clever, as both an evening's entertainment and a marketing strategy. The show's easy, giddy wit satisfies the customers. They keep coming back because Madness changes every night...
...York Newsday, where he wrote a weekly column called ``Life in Cyberspace.'' Says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who pioneered the info-tech beat at TIME before being promoted last year to senior editor: ``Josh not only knows his way around cyberspace--and can write about it with grace and wit--but he's amazingly prolific...
British novelist Anita Brookner's 12th book comes as a welcome surprise--just when it looked as if she had settled into Barbara Pym's world of lonely females without Pym's wit and trenchant insight into character. Written from the point of view of a just retired bachelor businessman, George Bland, who becomes enthralled with a heedless, scheming young woman, A Private View (Random House; 242 pages) is not only wise but funny...