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...solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama. Indeed, Haggis brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance...
Ackerman is known for his searing wit, plump figure and distinctive residence (he lives on a houseboat on the Potomac named Unsinkable II--after Unsinkable I, which sank). He sits on the International Relations Committee, and pays a great deal of attention to foreign policy. This summer, the otherwise liberal Ackerman introduced a controversial bipartisan bill to require states to test newborns for HIV if their mothers had not been tested while pregnant...
After wading through the turgid prose of Peninsula's most recent issue, I realized that it attracts particularly rabid ideologues who seem utterly unable to infuse any of their pieces with even a hint of wit, irony or intelligence. It is that failure, not just their offensive rantings, which constitutes the real obscenity. --Lorraine A. Lezama The writer is a former Crimson editorialist...
Quickly, however, Adam seemed to get frustrated with my short replies, and I got tired of trying to match his biting wit. Despite his incivility, there was little question that Adam's e-mail was more spirited than mine. So I went back to my reading...
DIED. WALTER KERR, 83, Pulitzer-prizewinning New York Times drama critic respected for his wit, integrity and far-ranging knowledge of the theater; in Dobbs Ferry, New York...