Word: witting
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...that suggests the depths of the mad paladin's emotion. On Angelica (Soprano Randi Marrazzo), he lavished arias in each act that shimmer with dazzling coloratura and touching pathos. And for the finale, he composed a high-spirited, catchy septet that reconciles the conflicting emotions with warmth and wit...
...more limited." Trying to work some stretch into those limitations, Ellis' leading men's jacket for fall will be long, narrowing gradually from the shoulder to a nip at the hip and featuring a one-button closing. His women's line will concentrate on "cleanness and wit" and will feature oversize coats and jackets in wool flannel that will remind some observers of the wardrobe a flapper would haul along on her way to a little boola-boola...
...place in this gaudy but insecure film, which is all flesh and flash, never truly passionate or frightening. These sequences, in this context, become tributes not so much to a nostalgically recalled genre piece, but to the movies' long since vanished powers of suggestion. In those days, wit was employed to scare the wits out of people, and it was possible to speak about the unspeakable without turning it into an absurdity through show-and-tell realism...
...longer write a successful mystery play, but Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) can still stage one. In his own living room. For real. With his wife's inheritance at stake. His plot has wit and intricacy going for it-so much so that it cannot be described, lest the fun be spoiled for those who have not yet seen Ira Levin's original Broadway hit. Director Sidney Lumet has, perhaps, permitted the volume to be turned up too high, with the result that Caine and the other principals, Christopher Reeve and Dyan Cannon, sometimes seem screechy when they reach...
...this tradition and the morose routine of rejecting manuscripts, Nims, 68, has continued to teach, lecture, translate poems from a variety of tongues and edit anthologies. He has plenty of workaday excuses to be a dull boy. Yet The Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play of shapes/ that search, researching over the perfect shape/ to stop the mo-ment-in-time and stamp it: This...