Word: witting
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...artist as minotaur or faun; the savage beauty of the bullfight. The same subject is painted over and over, and because Picasso dated his works precisely, the astonished visitor understands that half a wall of work is the output of just one day. There is lyrical beauty, puzzling abstraction, wit and color; and occasionally a startlingly realistic pencil portrait of Maar as a reminder of his consummate skills as a draughtsman...
...from John, Paul, George and Ringo in the '60s.) Sometimes the chatter is used to introduce a song. We hear John's voice - "The Birds. A Hitchcock movie" - and hear the guitar intro to "Blackbird." At other times the bavardage is there just to capture the group's breezy wit. George asks whether his guitar is out of tune (it is), and John tosses out an impromptu verse: "I suddenly discovered that I was out of tune,/ But I kept on playin', 'cause I'm no goon...
Josefina Yanguas is 89 years old. Her voice is velvety and still infused with an august Basque accent after all these years. Her hearing is not as good as it used to be, but she still musters enough wit for biting ripostes. Josefina has served rich coffee and even richer company over the 48 years that she owned Café Pamplona, playing host to writers, students, locals and luminaries. (She sold it to a young Canadian couple last week.) The café, “my little coffeehouse in Cambridge,” as she fondly calls it, will...
...line taken from the hit single by hip-hop artists Little T and One Track Mike. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz also makes a guest appearance—in caricature form—in the animation. Wilson has already wowed University administrators with her wit and her technical skills. But those who know her only as the force behind “Shaniqua” will see her in person today as she delivers the female Harvard Oration—the more serious of the seniors’ Class Day speeches—in Tercentenary Theatre...
...Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends. “She makes jokes that you can repeat to 20 different people out of context and everybody will still laugh,” says Widdicombe’s blockmate, Alexa H. Hirschfeld ’06. “She?...