Word: wryness
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...gross irony that speech should desert the director who had virtually patented the theme of man's inability to communicate. Before he stroke he had addressed his lingering reputation with characteristic wryness: "I've always carried this 'incommunicability' around with me. But no one doubts that this incommunicability exists. If everyone attributes it to me, this means I communicated it. Therefore, I am not incommunicable...
...spent the evening massaging his father's feet. The effect of "The Boss" is so galvanic that his pal actually shaves off his beard and abandons his ritual turban. But Manzoor himself never has the heart to turn his back on his parents entirely, noting with typical wryness: "By high school my friends were starting to drink and I was starting to fast...
...best of Lewis will live as long as there is a Guatemala, a Sicily or a Burma to be drawn toward. But when he moved on, a certain way of seeing the world (with affection, wit and style), and a certain way of describing it (with unflappable wryness) moved on too. The fearless elegist of Southeast Asia had given us indelible portraits of a world that is already as far away as the last emperor...
...first chapter of How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories (Random House; 187 pages; $22.95), she drags us straight into the sick room from hell. She is looking after Bella and Izzy, her failing Russian-Jewish parents. She muddles through with such wryness and tenderness and, finally, wisdom that it will make you ache for another chance to tend your own parents...
...debates Gore has begun pushing Bradley for ?- which will for now consist of a near-debate "joint appearance" at an October 27 town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the only confrontation Bradley has agreed to. A whole new Gore 2000? As Bradley himself said Wednesday in California with typical wryness, "That's an abrupt strategy shift. This time yesterday they were ignoring...