Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language problem is solved in the simplest way: the opera is sung in Swedish, but we can read from the subtitles. It's a rare functional approach. With complete respect and evident love for the Mozart-Schikaneder score, Bergman added dazzling stage sets, high Renaissance costumes and editorial wit, and elicited a daring bawdiness from the text that warms the heart. The result is a brilliantly illustrated, sensuous and noble fairy-tale...
...last year, BBC announced it on the international evening news. You can find her books in backwoods stores throughout the Empire, and they are beginning to infiltrate bookstores here, too. Her romances follow the best tradition of the comedy of manners, with not too much substance, and plenty of wit. Like Jane Austen, she has enough of an eye for the slightly ridiculous to keep you laughing, but she never requires the mental gymnastics of serious literature. No one is ever murdered, no one hurt--you simply ramble along in a world of idiosyncrasies and foibles, where the only danger...
TRAVESTIES. Playwright Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers) spews wit, wordplay, paradox and thought like tracer bullets, and, in a performance of indelible virtuosity, John Wood sees that every bullet is dead on target...
...Wit. The rambunctious sophistication of Stanley Donen's direction makes the amatory adventures whistle by as fast as the gunplay. Writers Huyck and Katz, who collaborated with George Lucas on the screenplay for American Graffiti, are unashamedly infatuated with the myths and romances of old Hollywood but are shrewd enough not to mimic them. Their writing is affectionate, not slavish, and is full of sly wit...
Union leaders should also be considered because they, too, run large institutions and deal with conflicting constituencies, though like businessmen, or perhaps more so, they suffer from a reputation for narrowness of vision. Leonard Woodcock, 64, president of the United Auto Workers, has shown compassion, wit, a sensitivity to change in the economy, and a deep interest in foreign affairs. Lane Kirkland, 53, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is one of the ablest union administrators and an astute student of automation, race relations, social security and foreign intelligence operations...