Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro. The second installment of what promises to be the longest and liveliest American political biography of modern times finds Lyndon Johnson transforming what were certainly not his finest hours into tarnished triumphs. To wit: avoiding World War II combat for as long as possible and then parlaying a few minutes under fire into a Silver Star; and stealing the 1948 Texas senatorial election with 87 questionable votes -- enough to earn him the nickname Landslide Lyndon...
Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...
...became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself to acknowledge Pope John Paul II's praise of sexual pleasure within marriage...
...Vonnegut is also known for his wit and ability to create bizarre characters by finding the irony in everyday life. Bradley, too, has this ability, and takes advantage of it to inject his novel with a sharp wit and satire...
Bradley's wit spares no one, not even the sculptor who is to create the statue of the coach. Oni Welby-White is a strange figure who hangs hundreds of pictures of the coach in his decaying hotel suite and spends most of his time crafting statues of Christ and Mary...