Word: witting
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...entertaining enough to attract and hold what its research staff finds to be a TV-savvy, channel-hopping and, hence, "fearsomely tough" audience. In this they will undoubtedly be successful: The Electric Company jolts along at breakneck pace, acharge with knockout graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There...
...Morris' characters now seem to coalesce in the splendid single person of a wiry old coot named Floyd Warner. He is the hero of the author's latest novel, a terse, bright fable with all the Morris trademarks-the oblique wit, the offhand revelation, the unfailing eye for what Wallace Stevens called "the real that wrenches, the quick that's wry." Stubbornly out of touch with this or any other time, living in exile in a California trailer court, Floyd has got up to the age of 82 on a diet of hard-fried eggs and potatoes...
...gallon hat, says grace with a gag punch line, and plays the accordion. His younger son and his grandson, as it happens, are both eight year olds ("Now you know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy and, at the show's conclusion, another chance next week. He should seek succor instead from the producer-director-writer, Hal Kanter, whose previous contribution was Julia...
...watches himself as he is swept along to a senseless, inevitable death. Sabel's treatment of the playwright is, strangely enough, almost entirely appropriate to historical fact, and a paradigm for the present as well. The two-act-play is skillfully consistent and well-knit, but its concentration of wit and the abruptness of scene-changes could only confuse an audience. Some plays are meant to be read rather than produced: that granted, Sabel's Play...is an admirable work...
...could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet slowness. In 1924, when Hopper was 42, they married. From then on, she did nearly all the modeling for his nudes and other feminine figures. Perhaps it says something about their curious yet enduring relationship that his nudes-and indeed...