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...Quaker holding a Quaker Oats box on which is a picture of, etc. A reporter bundled up against the cold reports on Congress against a backdrop of the U.S. Capitol, then is cross-questioned by Reasoner and Walters, as if he had not had the wit to include important points. You can tell he would have preferred doing his own wrapup...
...University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity. "Washington," he told a journalists' club last April, "is a place where the truth is not necessarily the best defense. It surely runs a poor second to the statute of limitations." His job, he observed on another occasion, was "to walk down the middle...
...tone to the movie. Such a thoroughgoing evocation and spoof of detective dilletantism does have intrinsice entertainment value. But parodying parody has its pitfalls, and mockery--even self-mockery--can become its own affectation. The problem with The Seven Percent Solution is that in its constant pursuit of dry wit it becomes dessicated...
...with a hole cut in the top for her neck. "Ah, mon vieux, tu t'es leve." She laughed and threw back her pretty head. The maid brought it back to her. "And now I shall read to you. Chloe," she called, ringing a dainty cow-bell, "le livre!" "Wit' bacon and onions?" Chloe asked liltingly as she stomped out her stogie with the toe of her Converse. Cheryl laughed and threw back her head once more; Chloe double-dribbled it across the room, faked to me, made a lay-up and returned to Cheryl on the rebound. "I oughta...
ALTHOUGH PUNCTUATED with terrific bangs of comic energy, the current Winthrop House production of The Taming of the Shrew trips and falls over the unmasking of its Kate. By accenting the fast-biting moments of Elizabethan wit, director Leah Rosovsky has left the meaning of the play unclear. The actors, dressed in a hodge-podge of costumes and too often blocked like isolated commentators on the action, come up each with their own interpretations. Jennifer Marre's shrew submits to her husband with an attempt at audience-directed irony. But Jonathan Epstein's Petruchio tries to woo her sincerely with...