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Word: wittiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sainte-Chapelle. Yet for several weeks, visitors to the Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts have been convulsed with mirth over the work of a puckish artist from Marseille, Jacques Carelman. With his collection of "Objets In-trouvables" (Unfindable Objects), Carelman has revived Surrealist humor and created the wittiest show to be seen in Paris in years. (It will open in Dallas next winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unfindable Objects | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...century of show business, Prince could do enough of what David Merrick calls "flimflam and legerdemain to cover an awful and gloomy book about nothing at all." Fortunately, the Prince and his Follies have that other talent: Stephen Sondheim. For the musical, he has written some of the glossiest, wittiest lyrics in Broadway history. His melodies gracefully genuflect to Kern and Gershwin, Berlin and Arlen. His words bow to no one. With Follies he has established himself, beyond doubt, as the theater's supreme lyricist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: III 'Devil's Disciple' Is Bright and Brassy Show | 7/10/1970 | See Source »

Newly-elected Jeffrey A. Goodby makes the wittiest contributions. In "Why Do Firemen Wear Red Suspenders?" he lampoons the styles of J. D. Salinger. Emily Dickinson, ?. ?. c??mmings. James Jo?ee. Karl Marx, and Kahill Gibran, by giving their inevitable responses to the riddle: "to keep their pants up." For Emily Dickinson. he writes...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: From the Newssland Poons | 4/7/1970 | See Source »

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