Word: wisecrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would think that a play--especially one with five characters and one set--would need more than the world's oldest plot and a set of indistinguishable characters to justify its surviving. You would think that, but you would be wrong. Mary, Mary is just one Jean Kerr wisecrack after another for almost three hours, and the show will probably run for years...
...Crack" in "Wisecrack...
...essential characteristic of satire, according to Johnson, is criticism. He explained that "the 'crack' in 'wisecrack' is the crack of the whip, which is never more effective than when it is cutting into someone's hide...
...usual in such dramas, the outfit's radio is bashed up. Poitier announces that despite its losses, the unit will follow its original orders, which were to garrison a farmhouse and hold a mountain pass against a regiment or so of Chinese. He makes a grim wisecrack about his color ("You'll be able to see me real good up there against the snow") and manfully leads his men through a mine field. Nothing that follows is very startling. The farmhouse contains the beautiful Eurasian girl (Argentine Actress Ana St. Clair) who is saved by Poitier from...
...life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...