Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREMISE: A black comedy set in the thouroughbred racing world of the American West, Simpatico is a play of betrayal and caustic wit. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard uses his biting humor to expose the sleazy society of the high rollers and their hilarious confrontation with the world of white trash...
...Dunn's wit and arch humor are famous among administrators and students...
Still, Hawking's wit and delivery elicited laughter and applause from the audience...
Rice, formerly provost of Stanford University, is in line to become, if Bush wins, either National Security Adviser, Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense. She would be destined to be--not only because of her race and gender but also because of her wit and spark--a politico-celebrity superstar. "She doesn't seem to try to push herself forward in any particular way," says former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is also advising Bush. "But she has such a level of capability...that she winds up getting asked to do all sorts of things...
...more underneath American Beauty. After all, as the promotional tagline insists, this is a movie that invites "look[ing] closer." It should, by all accounts, be remarkably subtle. For a time as I watched (from somewhat farther away), I agreed -- snowed by the film's acting prowess, its wit and its elegance. American Beauty seems to be full of big, revolutionary ideas: that beauty is a whole other world behind images, that we create the rules we live by, that we have caged ourselves and can set ourselves free. But, at heart, these ideas are too obvious and too broad...