Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE THEATER OF JEAN RENOIR. A wise and mellow coda in three parts by one of the old masters of world cinema. Each episode is rendered in a style that evokes a period in Renoir's past work and comments on it with grace and wit...
Died. Harry Hershfield, 89, perennial master of ceremonies, raconteur, columnist and cartoonist; in Manhattan. Hershfield first exercised his wit as the cartoonist-creator of the Desperate Desmond and Abie the Agent comic strips. In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...
...cast might be a repertory group. Performers work at peak level; if Stefan Gierasch is to be singled out for excellence, it is not because he is better but because his crippled old ranch hand is written as operatic bathos and yet is played with unfailing dignity and wit...
...three grow on the reader who is soon lost in comic-strip chronicles marked by great wit, suspense and true humor rising both from character and from a remarkably sophisticated view of the world. These four books variously send Tintin, Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers into the desert to chase opium smugglers, into central Europe to try to keep King Ottokar from losing the throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean...
...send him to a decent school. Hours be fore his crucial final examinations, Jim tosses his school books into a river and, like his father, packs up to live by him self. He works in a summer camp where he falls in with an affable greaser (played with wit and affection by none other than Ringo Starr). Jim learns about girls, about the niceties of shortchanging customers in the fun fair where he works with his new friend, and about the gnawing difficulties of burying the past. Un able to sort things out, he returns home, where the restrictive working...