Word: wittedness
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The son of a concert pianist who pays him to stay away, the drifter composes pleasant little themes for the ladies he sleeps with-a slow-witted waitress, a sloe-eyed French chanteuse (Sadja Marr). The singer has a little boy who may be Alan's and who, like...
Desert of Failure. The terrain itself is the real villain of the novel. The "territory" is a dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to...
LOVE FOR LOVE (RCA Victor). Another all-English cast, this time with an all-English play. Love for Love is hardly the finest flower of the Restoration, but as performed by the National Theater of Great Britain. Congreve's period piece blossoms into fine, bawdy fare. The credit is...
Tomatoes/Potatoes. In her house the walls, telephones and pianos are always white, the butler is always comic, and her escort perennially in top hat and tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings...
Once Moyers is gone, who-if anyone-will become the new primus"? Actually, it may take months for a successor to surface. When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist. Johnson, as one aide puts it, likes men who can...