Word: witting
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...hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...
...talks with U.S. businessmen that Mikoyan worked hardest to sell his theme. Weaving wit with bluntness that sometimes bordered on confession ("Solomon would probably split the blame for the cold war down the mid dle"), he entranced his listeners. He heaped praise on American business, chirped, with a twinkle, that Ford and General Motors enjoy just the same kind of peaceful coexistence that Russia wants with...
...even repulsively cute film version of the play, made in England by Anthony (The Browning Version) Asquith, is a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater. With the bland commercial irreverence that Shaw admired in himself but loathed in his producers, Director Asquith has cast Shaw's pearls of wit among some of the biggest camera hogs in the business. Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones. On the serious side, Director Asquith...
...Green, a nostalgic anthology of their own works, is anything but elaborate: three stools for props, a couple of quick dress changes for Betty, one shirt switch for Adolph. What makes the show remarkable is that chic, cleancut Betty, 39, and fast, Fernandel-faced Adolph, 43, are not one wit changed from their cellar years...
...Uncle (French). A wicked satire on mechanized modern living by Jacques (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) Tati, who is probably the funniest funnyman in films, but in this one overdoes his wit by at least 30 minutes...