Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high hurdlers and said I had them all licked." Year after year, as both choreographer and dancer, Martha Graham has continued to jump higher and more daringly than anybody else in the dance world. Last week she was back in Manhattan, moving audiences with her typical mixture of exuberant wit and vibrant theatrical presence...
...Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women are hurt, and virtue and vice are drowned, is kept between banks by an ironic tone and wit. By the end, the champagne seems more like Pernod, and the last word-a kind of lament for women by way of lashing out at men-goes significantly to the procuress...
Urbane, skeptical, ironic and wryly melancholy, Don Fabrizio is a major fictional character creation. Equally vivid are the evocation of the author's home soil and the wit with which Novelist Lampedusa can describe the single-minded gluttony of hungry rustics or the lethal chagrin of a jilted woman ("she wanted to kill as much as she wanted to die '"). But Lampedusa's subtlest effect is to write prose that seems to be aged in marble and encrusted with the patina of antiquity. Like a statue or a ruin, the book congeals a moment of time past...
Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The author concentrates on the female of the species in these stories, and proves Kipling's point about its deadliness with chilling wit...