"Leave Me Now" concludes, with pithy elegance, "Show me things I can do/Do without, or without you".
Encountering one of the five canvases in "Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum," a pithy loan show at the Frick Collection, has shocked me with really embarrassing proof of my memory's fecklessness.
Or, maybe, Exxon-Mobil intercepts the message before you ever get it, and converts it to: "aim hose, put out fire!" They don't specify a gasoline hose, but the image accompanying the pithy advice shows exactly that.
Since its debut two years ago, "Downton Abbey" has spawned all sorts of offshoots, including YouTube parodies, fashion collections and needlepoint pillows emblazoned with the show's pithy one-liners, not to mention a stately-home-sized cottage industry of books aiming to cash in on the sudden craze for everything Edwardian.
(Anderson Steve Martinn and the Steep Canyon Rangers (Tuesday) The comedian and author Steve Martin cracks wise with pithy one-liners while showing serious bluegrass chops as the frontman of this traditional bluegrass group from North Carolina.
In all, just 11 episodes of the pithy space soap were shown (though 14 were made) and some of those were aired out of sequence at the bequest of the same broadcasting brains trust who were also responsible for the untimely demise of Arrested Development.
And in her show, which interspersed pithy light verses (some consisting of only two rhymed couplets) with songs, she suggested a Beat Generation version of Dorothy Parker, wrapping the bitterest observations in sunny nursery rhymes.
Mr. Champion, who died in 1980 and directed Broadway productions of "Hello, Dolly!" and "Bye Bye Birdie," among others, also made the pithy observation that the Oscar show would be great if it wasn't for "the giving out of these cotton-picking awards".
Harry Fehr's pithy, poignant production of Orlando shows Scottish Opera on defiant form.
