Word: wittiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What must have started as an appeal to street-wise pacifists, SOMBJAF thrives as hipper-than-thou funkadelia and constitutes the wittiest attack on U.S. arms policy since Tom Lehrer. A solid achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...
...movie's wildest, wittiest sequence, the gremlins invade a neighborhood bar and turn it into Porky's Goes to the Star Wars Cantina. As Leading Man Galligan describes the scene, "They pick their noses, they snap their fingers, they drink lots of beer. One gremlin in a raincoat is a flasher. There's a Jennifer Beals gremlin who breakdances. Five gremlins play poker; one of them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There...
...Senate, Robert Dole of Kansas ("I don't want to say Howard Baker is short, but last week I saw him playing handball against the curb") and Wyoming's Alan Simpson. Among the Democratic presidential contenders, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings is considered the wittiest...
...wittiest, if not the surest, books are the Gault/Millau guides (Crown; $11.95 each) to Paris, London, New York and France. The work of two dedicated French cuisinartistes, to whom a badly cooked meal is a personal, nay national, affront, Henri Gault and Christian Millau's assessments of hotels and restaurants are unfortunately often more informed with high passion than sound taste. More reliable is the august Guide Michelin, long the three-starred supreme arbiter of hotels, restaurants and touring, not so much written as compiled as if by God himself...
Other names sometimes mentioned: Martin Feldstein, 43, the current chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, 63, probably the wittiest of all the candidates. Last month Wriston took himself out of the running by saying that he did not think that a former banker should head the Federal Reserve, which oversees the nation's banks. But then he explained, "Actually, no one ever offered me the job." Also mentioned, but only as long shots: Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, 64, and Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs Beryl Sprinkel, 59, an ardent monetarist...