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Charles de Gaulle towers over people as an inspirational figure, and even his expressions of humor are somehow Alpine; Defferre stands solidly among people, with all the warmth and wit that stamp him a man of the Mediterranean...
...Bugger off," shouted Bogarde, misunderstanding his father's Shavian wit...
...Watson, come here"). Dr. Winternitz himself was in a state of passionately transferred loyalties. Born a Jew, he had become what Freud, in his study on the technique of wit, called ante-Semitic. "When my mother died, he thought he would improve his social position by marrying a Whitney, but I don't think he did," Mary says drily, leaving no doubt as to her opinion of the high life at New Haven, Conn., which the Winternitz-Whitney family maintained...
Died. Brendan Francis Behan, 41, professional Irish tosspot and boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin...
...most of the jokes are lousy, at that. The show starts with a phone call from David's girlfriend. Mr. Foreman picks up the receiver, asks who's calling, and exclaims, "Wanda? What kind name is Wanda?" That's a joke. Yet there are flashes of wit: vicariously excited by David's reports, his friend Marvin asks David if he undressed the leading lady (Yvonne De Carlo--and what an asset she has) or vice versa. David hesitates a second and then debonairly replies, "We got a kid off the streets and paid him a quarter to do it," (After...