Word: witting
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...scream. The title on one page of a Crumb sketchbook reads, "Words Fail Me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." But pictures allow Crumb to tell his own truth. To him, as to any artist who ascends deep into the bizarre, his work looks like reality. With care and wit, he draws his own demons and goddesses. One thing he never draws is conclusions. That is for the viewer to do, and be horrified or edified...
...this While You Were Sleeping has. But its most attractive quality is its ease. The script by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...
...that academic exoticus, a professor without a Ph.D.; he has said, "All I want to do is share the past." Like his earlier masterworks, Landscape and Memory is studded with apt illustrations from art and literature, and its pages crackle with epigram and, at times, a dry Gibbonian wit. The book also has a message of rebuke for those multiculturalists who despise Western civilization as the archenemy of nature and the world's primary despoiler of pristine wilds. "Even the landscapes that we suppose to be most free of our culture," Schama writes, "may turn out, on closer inspection...
...gone, replaced by a Monet ... If someone were trying to send a message to me, they were being incredibly subtle. In fact they were. The next day, the Monet was gone and a Vuillard was in its place ... It was clear that all was not well." Wit at this level balances almost any degree of obsession, and yes, thanks, another cup-black, no sugar...
...Newt, Wit of Farley...