Word: witting
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...make us contemplate courageously, or even just wryly, the endgame that all of must eventually play, it might have been a very useful exercise. But to find brave and authentic good cheer - which can certainly include romance if you get lucky - on the drear side of life requires a wit and wisdom that is beyond the powers of this truly tasteless movie to summon...
...Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with her career clock, not her biological one. A minor accomplishment? Maybe, but one to be proud...
...says Allen, "but at the same time MySpace is just a website; it's the music that people are attracted to, not the Internet." So what is her draw? Allen's cutting, sometimes dark, tales of London life, breakup and revenge, unwanted suitors and mortgages, drenched with wit and wrapped around the unlikeliest pop hooks and a reggae brass backing, a bit like Blondie's forays into a Caribbean sound. Allen's blog is a big hit too, as she humorously details her pop-star-on-the-rise life: "All I did was sign a deal...
...that could stop time but only rarely ("irrational exuberance") ruffled the markets. Asked about the nation's blooming deficit, Bernanke answered crystal clearly, "Deficits matter because they represent additions to debt that our children and grandchildren will either have to pay through higher taxes or reduced services." Bernanke's wit also made a guest appearance. When Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes asked Bernanke whether rising rents and their impact on the weakening housing market would make him think "one and a half times" about raising interest rates, Bernanke responded, "No, I'll think twice, Senator...
...only to bring their inhabitants back down to earthiness, but they still pitched their tents close to the poverty line, where, perforce, the living was never easy but the conflicts were always very basic. There was an instinctive understanding among those moviemakers that spectacle was inimical to comedy. Wit is subtle and sly; spectacle is noisy and crushing...