Word: witting
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...mother didn't like it, so I left," she says without breaking her smile. All the recorded dialogue was smooth in a similar way, as if they had been practicing the lines for years. But the camera remains impersonal, never attempting to break through the sheen of confidence and wit. Only once, with a beautiful groupie from California, is there a break in the tidy performances. But the scene is marred by her obvious awareness of the camera, and she begins to mumble uncomfortably...
...life, though ordinary enough, seems to haunt me-in uncommon ways. It seems to come to me-from somewhere else. Someone. And I've been trying to understand it; but it seems that I can't get it. So: the noted French wit Jean-Luc Godard said: "What is film? Film is Truth-twenty-four-times-a-second." So I thought that if I put it all down on film, and I put my thumb on it and I run it back and forth ... And I stop it when I want to, then I got everything...
...From the wit within his throat...
...visit, an event which at first seems so peripheral that its very prolongation, with Fleur and Bob making repeated moves toward the door, but encountering repeated delays in departure, generates a sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her chance to pierce the vulgar invaders with insights and wit, surprisingly lucid coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that good vegetable diets result in odorless feces, Catherine flips...
...pity that McCarthy's poems will be denied the autonomy of anonymity. Many have wit, candor, grace, style and the nicest sort of sentiment. As the poet says, "Do not look long on a harbor from which all ships are gone...