Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Actor-Playwright Peter Ustinov were to ad-lib a novel on the stage or before a TV camera, it might turn out very well. With his wit, his storyteller's flair and his crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...
...widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years...
...other recent Bergman films, is deftly handled and usually interwoven with the serious. As Tubal vends his "love potion," the old housekeeper is won over by the manager's hilariously cavalier manner, but her impatience for the potion derives, we learn, from her starvation for physical love. Conversely, wit is injected just after a particularly grim section when a drunkard who has been picked up by the troupe dies in their carriage. Nothing in the film, however, is quite so enjoyable as the uninterrupted bucolic clowning during the seduction of the inexperienced, yet swaggering coachman by the luscious maid (delightfully...
...TIME reported Murrow "bedded down with pneumonia" on election night in line with CBS's own statement that he had developed a "touch of pneumonia." TIME stands by its more general diagnosis, to wit: that CBS is no longer wholly responsive to Murrow's ideas and does not always use him to best advantage...
They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks against wrathful 260-lb. tackles. Instead, they whip downfield for passes, or take a pitchout in full stride to sweep around end. Given a yard or two of maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers...