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...hostage in Lebanon, stripped to your sweat-soaked shorts and sour T shirt, chained to the wall of a cell shared with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall...
Time and again, the `Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' livened the show with her infectious sense of humor and wit. Repeatedly making digs at her age, of which she shows no evidence, and replacing her "10 years ago" lines with 30 years ago," Baez had the capacity crowd on the edge of its seat in anticipation of these subtle and humorous variations of her lyrics...
Just so. The Kennedy whom Hamilton pieces together from interviews, letters and memoirs is a blithe cynic whose wit and charm are substitutes for intimacy. "Were you ever in love?" a woman asks him later in his life. His smooth answer: "No, though often very interested...
...knee-jerk, New York-edged hostility can be grating. (Superman is dead. "Good. I hate him.") What makes it palatable, however, is Stern's hyperbolic wit and a disarming undercurrent of self-deprecation. Stern, who is married and has two children, with a third on the way, often makes disparaging comments about his own looks and his undersized sexual organ. He may be radio's biggest egomaniac, but the insecure Long Island kid who had trouble getting girls is never far from the surface...
...degrees at both Dartmouth and Oxford in interdisciplinary studies -- history, philosophy, politics, economics -- and earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under a letterhead proclaiming himself the "Thorstein Veblen Wizard of Political Economy." To the criticism that few of the insights in his books are original, friends say Reich considers synthesis as important as discovery. As he once wrote in another context, "Often, greater rewards flow...