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Most of the time, the show opts for subtler flecks of wit, often tucked into the edges and backgrounds of scenes. The restaurant where two characters meet (look fast) is called Ma Raison, and one of Cane's bright ideas to save the farm is something called a bran raisin -- no need to add cereal. Other, broader gags can be quite funny. When one character finds himself face to face with a loaded gun, he coolly dares the malefactor to shoot: "You're not scared, are you? . . . Maybe you're too used to having someone do your dirty work." Only...
...little bit of a lot of Kennedys in him: his father Robert's unceasing energy and passion; his grandfather Joseph's single-minded dedication to winning; and his uncle Ted's occasional inarticulateness, mitigated by only a touch of the bemused self-awareness that was part of the wit and style of his late uncle the President. But the Kennedy trait that carries Joe is the physical charisma and boundless (albeit often unfocused) energy that have become a family trademark...
...Fools have the wit to keep themselves out of the rain,"--Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner...
...gold and come up with a few weakly glinting bits. The Enchanter offers us flaccid auxiliary characters and a descriptive style which--although recognizably Nabokov's in its wit and lilt--becomes self-indulgently poetic and sinks into monotony...
...addition, the protagonist's impressions are spiced with cynical wit. Unable to perceive his bulbous new bride as his "wife," he refers to her simply as "the person," a "cumbersome behemoth" who stares at him intently with her "two eyes and wart...