Word: witting
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...manage to be topical without sounding like every other pundit; he can venture into quirky subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats, yet he is quicker to offer a correction, or to let a target answer back, than almost any other eminent columnist...
...camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank "No Lips" Burns, who together perfected the art of irritation. And finally to Benjamin Franklin Pierce--Hawkeye--whose limitless storehouse of wit kept American punsters in full supply...
Mondale has genuine wit, but he is not without his liabilities. He is closely associated with the unpopular presidency of Jimmy Carter. His brand of liberalism is in eclipse, so much of the intellectual force of his campaign will have to come from his "new ideas." Most important, the scrutiny given the front runner will magnify and occasionally distort his campaign. Mondale is the man to beat: any victories will be viewed as unremarkable, any losses considered big upsets, and any stumbles treated as potentially fatal...
...close and M*A*S*H generated the momentum any TV series needs to sustain its quality after the first few seasons, the show revealed itself as a gritty romance about the finest American instincts. Here were gruff pragmatism, technical ingenuity, grace under pressure, the saving perspective of wit. The men and women of 4077 MASH could be seen as us at our worst hour, finding the best part of ourselves...
...Brooklyn Academy of Music. Part narrative epic, part rock opera, part home movie, United States is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, aphoristic examination of 20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful example to date of the avant-garde hybrid known as performance...