Word: witting
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...seasoned wit is matched only by his appetite for good food, but Calvin Trillin is a man whose passions have always transcended the purely gustatory. The author of such critically touted books as Third Helpings (1983) and If You Can't Say Something Nice (1987), the Kansas City-born humorist, novelist and columnist also has a knack for capturing the offbeat flavor of American life. Last month Trillin contributed a portrait of Atlanta as part of TIME's coverage of the Democratic National Convention. This week Trillin's supple pen is trained on New Orleans, where the Republicans have converged...
Nora was Joyce's "portable Ireland," and he frequently read into her experiences, songs and tales for his inspiration. Nora's unpunctuated letters to Joyce were the basis of Molly's monologue at the end of his masterpiece. All of his major female characters share her wit, personality and touching humanity, and it is because of the impact she made on him that he was able to give the world all the great literature that...
Throughout the book, Brinkley reveals with his typical biting wit, keen insight and damning criticism many of the not-so-heroic aspects of Washington during these years: a rapidly expanding bureaucracy and its petty infighting over exceedingly short supplies and space; a rigidly circumscribed, deeply impoverished and grossly ignored Black community; a non-existent municipal government that was in effect run by one of the nation's most outspoken racists, Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo, chairman of the obscure Senate District Committee beginning in 1944; a financial elite far more intent on improving their social status by flattering their fellow...
Gender swipe. Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, an excellent speaker with a biting wit, will keynote the Democratic Convention as living proof that gender is a Bush, not a Dukakis, hang-up. She will also stake her claim as a real Texan, not one whose "residence" is a Houston hotel...
...best from other cultures, America is celebrating the spirited sounds and shapes, the flavors and flirtations of Hispanic style. The new influence is changing the way the country eats, dresses, dances, plays, ) learns -- the way it lives. Look around. See the special lightning, the distinctive gravity, the portable wit, the personal spin. In theater and films, Latin playwrights and directors supply a fresh vision and voice. The names on the marquee have a Spanish ring: Andy Garcia, Maria Conchita Alonso, the inspirational actor Edward James Olmos. In fashion and design, painting and architecture, critics laud the Latino artists whose work...