Word: wittier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team and, in company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
...brazen, fast-talking, colorful speech of men (rarely women) motivated by avarice. His collaborator on the screenplay, Shel Silverstein, is known for his wonderfully subversive children's verse, as well as some scabrous poems for adults. One would think that between them they could come up with a wittier, juicier script than this...
They yelled louder than they ever have. They were wittier, nastier than they ever have been. Joke after joke fell upon the green and white sea above the Michigan State bench...
...good thing that can be said of staid morality, however, is that it is the perfect target for parody--a fact that did not escape the wittier Victorians. Some of the brightest comedy ever written--for example, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest--was forged during this era of moral gloom...
...Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park. Money worries are for comic relief. Cocktail-party chat is about something wittier than property values in Quogue. % You will find no filthy streets, colicky children or subway Rambos here. Instead, there is the invigorating lilt of spring in the air, and love and the Chrysler Building are just around every corner. No wonder New Yorkers love Woody Allen pictures: he makes retro...