Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep such an ambition from being more than facile presumption, Beatty and his co-writer Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Director Hal Ashby (The Last Detail) would have needed all their wit about them. All through the movie, though, their attitude toward George wavers. When he bemoans to Jill the general poverty of his life, it sounds like just another of his ploys to mollify an anxious, angry woman. But the end of Shampoo subverts what has gone before. George discovers that Jackie is his one true love and he blubbers out a proposal -marriage, kids, the whole number -that reveals...
...played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence on the force - his father was a cop, but standards have slipped since the old days - Moriarty overplays Bo so desperately that it seems unlikely he could have remained a policeman even in the worst of times...
...degrees to the right of Heath's. She also has no experience in foreign affairs. When asked her opinions in matters of world diplomacy and defense at a press conference last week, Mrs. Thatcher tartly replied: "I am all for them." Such brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is nonetheless disconcerting in a prospective Prime Minister. Mrs. Thatcher is the first to admit that she is "not an expert in all fields," and she intends to appoint a Cabinet that will provide balance to her own expertise in domestic affairs...
...evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming scene. The room became a jack...
...their ending musical number and raucous final applause vibrated one of the mirror's light bulbs to my right. But what makes. "The Proposition" such a genuinely vital and penetrating show is not merely this special type of illusion. The real vibrancy stems from the actors winsome style, a wit that can animate any dead proposition suggested by the audience into a theater alive with laughter (no matter if "smoking," "abortion," and "overeating" all turned up in this show again--the skits were always creative). As the actors came backstage from their final bows to give out mutual hugs...