Word: witting
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...writer who made his mark criticizing films with a mixture of dry wit, far-far-out metaphors and opinions that sometimes seem designed to surprise and provoke, Elvis Mitchell is startlingly polite. While taking his film class last year, I visited his office hours in the Carpenter Center’s Sert Café. Interrupting our conversation about comic books, he jumped up, crossed the room and opened the door for a shopping-bag-laden stranger...
...hard to approach the body of ideas in Angels through journalistic writing, it is equally hard to approach an understanding of its author through hearing him talk. At the Loeb, Kushner spoke with warmth and wit. But what he conveyed was merely the things he represents—powerful playwriting, political indignation and activism, his own brand of humor—and not necessarily what he actually...
...particular wit lies in his ability to add an unexpected bite to seemingly ordinary statements, usually in the form of a kicker. His parents, he says, were “neurotic—which is to say [they gave me] a personality...
...James’ wit and personality permeates the book, to the extent that her stages seem to all be based on personal experience. One wonders what former roommate is the naïve “New Graduate” and what hated and despised former boss is now called “The Worker Bee.” James occasionally injects a shot of realism, reminding readers that “You don’t just wake up one day, stretch, look at the sun and say, ‘Oh baby, I’ve found...
...Johnson, who keeps it cheeky). Filled with details, as the way the Keeper's pipe smoke always coils into little skulls and lost creatures, and wildly imaginative and amusing creatures, like the stopwatch-shaped robots that need to be wound up, "Dungeon" has the same kind of wit, style and completeness of a Jim Henson universe...