Word: witting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That's the height of the hilarity on offer here, and it's not hard to see where the writer, Dana Fox, and the director, Tom Vaughan, went wrong. Whatever audience for high (or even medium) wit once existed has mostly decamped for Assisted Living. There remains a small slightly doddering crowd that's up for small, well-written comedies like Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, which is currently playing in a release that will remain forever limited to older people who are not afraid to visit the "art" houses Mass market comedy (unless Judd Apatow...
...please Amiri Baraka, they’re probably missing their mark. Assimilationist tendencies aside, the Roots have done little over the years to play down their representational politics. Just look at the group’s name, or the title that Tariq Trotter self-consciously adopted years ago (to wit: freestyle track “@ 15” features the lyrics, “I have black thoughts / Therefore my name’s the same”). The Roots have always invoked canonical elements of black culture—their first proper release was called “Things...
...Rahim. “It was interesting to see a political pundit like him in many ways gush about a political candidate.” When asked by another audience member how he would respond to the claim that MSNBC officially supports Obama, Matthews responded with typical Hardball wit, “Well, it’s not official.” Matthews had a long history of involvement in politics before he launched his career as a commentator. Im 1974, he lost the Democratic Party’s nomination for a U.S. House seat in his native Pennsylvania...
...particularly surprising given that the film is obviously a labor of love for Mamet, who tells us in a director's statement that he has spent something like five years learning jiu-jitsu and is passionately committed to the values it represents and promotes. I also missed the hard wit of the language we associate with Mamet - funny, cynical, laced with well-chosen obscenities. It's almost as if his tongue was slowed by the seriousness with which he regards his subject...
...Anderson says. Since freestyle rapping is by definition unplanned, no one knows what type of topics or language will come up, but competitors are warned that offensive subject matter such as sexual violence will be grounds for disqualification. Competitors are judged on their effective employment of language and wit, because, Shaket says, the goal is to “defeat them with your mind.” By scheduling the event during April visiting weekend, the organizers of “Outwit” hope to show prospective students a different side of Harvard. “We study...