Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Kennedy Wit," a sentimental montage of J.F.K., pasted together with still photos, film clips and tapes by Jack Paar. His guest will be David Francis Powers, who served as confidant, friend and occasional court jester to the late President...
Forbes has used visual caricature for substance, near incompetents for actors, and vaudevillian stunts for wit. And even when he does manage to produce a fairly good scene (one brother trying to do the other in, or hearses racing through a band concert, or Queen Victoria decapitating instead of knighting, for example) there is always a want of directorial style that prevents the scene from being as good as it should...
...Compromise. Witness after wit ness before the Neuberger committee testified that the most promising ap proach to Preventicare is called "multiphasic testing," a program that the California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has been offering its mem bers ever since...
...ideally suited to mass preventive medi cine that a bill to start such a program nationally has already been introduced in the House and Senate. And at last week's committee discussion, hardly an opponent of multiphasics could be found. One of the few opposition wit nesses was Dr. Arthur Rappoport, a member of the board of the College of American Pathologists. Though he argued that the accuracy of multiphasic testing is still unproved, Rappoport later admitted favoring such a system "if the labs were run by pathologists...
...Chewing. This is the kind of virtuoso performance that Met regulars have come to know as the Bing style: a disarming combination of urbanity and no-nonsense determination, wit and steely single-mindedness. In opera, where people chew on each other's egos like lozenges, Bing's cool cools all. "I really enjoy dealing with difficult people," he says. "I just make them believe they really want to do what I want them to do." Or else...