Word: witting
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...wit, he's only a junior--perhaps he's not yet worthy of these recognitions in the collegiate hockey world...
...movie, faithful in spirit to the book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit seen below a sheath of ice, the oars dipping into dark water, the fearful maiden rushing between high hedges and across battlefields. They surely believe in Swinton as the pearl and perfection of any gender; her poise and gravity, and the drama...
...time of great music, classic music -- definitive American popular music -- but one notable writer didn't think so. Ring Lardner, the humorist of humble wonders and the ironist of old-time virtues, was driven to rages of wit over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind...
...from dysfunction; you don't want it leaping across the footlights to land, falsely grinning, falsely ingratiating, in your lap. But it is, of course, precisely the camera's business to facilitate such leaps. Even so, if these people had any real charm, if their oddity were cloaked in wit, if their rather chilly creator brought some real compassion to these sealed-off lives, we might take them more readily to heart. If they suggested some generalized insights about lower-middle-class life, we might more readily forgive their dreary excesses. And if wishing could make it so, Neil Simon...
...worth -- as "Norm's evil twin." There isn't even that much difference between Wendt's characters. The guys gathered to roast in the tribal sweat lodge and discover the "wild men" within are losers, not predators, full of thwarted yearning and silly sweetness. One moment rises to real wit: a dream sequence in which a neglected son of a rich man summons his father, only to find the old man is as usual too busy and has sent a surrogate...