Word: witting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them rescued from the consequences of their passionate irrationality. He really wants to save the world by showing just how stupid some of its creatures can be. He may go about his task with cool and stylish professionalism, but he stokes a crusader's fire beneath his admirably calculated wit...
...Gotta Have It does, alas, bear some traces of its rushed production schedule and quick script-writing. Although every actor delivers the direct camera addresses with genuine skill and wit, dialogue can occasionally sound forced or recited. Several scenes seem contrived. Take, for example, the Thanksgiving dinner Nola sets up to introduce all the rivals on the theory that "you were all going to meet one day..." Of course, the results are disastrous and Nola should know better than to have expected civility on such an occasion. Still, Lee can be forgiven almost any such questionable twists of plot because...
Helmut Schmidt served West Germany as both Finance and Defense Minister and, from 1974 to 1982, as Chancellor. Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt...
...interrupted by brief snippets of wit spoofing USA Today's sometimes optimistic and sensational reporting. Headlines in the weather section reading "Winter Wonderland encases 90% of USA" and "The heat is on" lead off stories, charts, and graphs describing a deadly Ice Age glacier absorbing the nation...
...carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such as this." But if the city is drained of color, there are rainbows in the language. One of No Surrender's pleasures for an out-of-towner is the discovery that wit and edge did not desert Liverpool when the Beatles went south...