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...Kissinger wit can always be counted on. As a guest speaker at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner last week, Kissinger mocked his reputation as a secret swinger. Noting that Gloria Steinem had said that she "is not now and never has been a girl friend" of his, Kissinger declared that he was not discouraged. "After all, she did not say that if nominated she would not accept, or if elected she would not serve...
Power has made Kissinger blossom. When he was a professor of government at Harvard, his colleagues appreciated his wit, but they never considered him the life of any party. When Kissinger first took his job under Nixon, he was tense and brusque. Now that he is solidly established as undisputed boss of foreign affairs, he is more relaxed than ever, and he is visibly-some would say ostentatiously-enjoying himself...
...said that Edith, an abstract painter, has the business sense in the family. She is a gay, spontaneous woman with long, dark-blonde hair. Throughout the siege, she has maintained her wit and poise. "If I'd taken that $650,000," she joked at one point, "do you think I'd be sitting here with this man?" There are even those who subscribe to a Lady Macbeth scenario of the Hughes affair...
...police, led by Frank Lovejoy, are firm of jaw but slow of wit, and lag far behind the audience in solving the transparent mystery. But no matter. Time makes this hokum endearing. Director Andre de Toth comes up with several chilling images-for instance, the faces of the wax effigies being put to flame and melting into mush-and keeps the action moving briskly along its hopelessly illogical course...
Wilson does not have the slashing wit of a Lenny Bruce, the angry bite of a Dick Gregory, the satirical punch of a Godfrey Cambridge, or the intellectual edge of a Bill Cosby. His approach is at once older and newer than that of the others. The message about racial injustice is the same as Gregory's, for example, but Flip sneaks it in and shakes loose a laugh before the audience can object. After telling a story about Indians, he asks: "How would you like it if you bought a $50,000 house and somebody came along...