I rather like the suggestion of cgdoherty (who calls us "twits" for raising the topic) for finessing the whole issue: "We should pick Olympic sites out of a hat and then just all go there and make it happen".The second, and deeper, debate is around the influence that the games are having and will leave on China.
He jokes familiarly with the boy who plays female parts about his voice deepening, which will end his ability to play these roles, and twits one of the younger players about his new beard: "O, old friend!
The king is a thing –" or a doddery, toothless old man delivery when he twits Polonius with the idea that there's nothing he would more willingly part with than Polonius's company "except my life, except my life, except my life".
"Popular Hits of the Showa Era," by Ryu Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy (Norton; $13.95) The satire is broad, but Murakami is mercilessly funny as he tracks his characters' evolution from twits to scholars of guerrilla warfare.
When Hollywood filmmakers set a scene at the symphony, twits in evening wear fill the frame, their jaws tight and their noses held high.
The satire is broad, but Murakami is mercilessly funny as he tracks his characters' evolution from twits to scholars of guerrilla warfare.
As Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, Groucho twits the longhairs and graybeards as well as the social butterflies of dormitory and speakeasy.
"Twits are twits, and snobs are snobs.
This does not, however, excuse the way that most of this staging's Turkish characters are played as twits.
Antitrust regulators at the European Union — whom Mr. O'Leary, Ryanair's chief executive, has variously dismissed as "twits" and "idiots" — have blocked three takeover attempts by Ryanair since 2006, despite granting approvals to similar combinations in Britain, Spain, Italy and Greece in recent years.
Hermanos twits the Fox network for not focusing on the beauty of the sport but instead zeroing in on Homemade signs of varying hokitude, Sleeping infants, Quaint city views, In a poem subtitled "Chernobyl, Texas," he second-guesses Manager Ron Washington for resting his best reliever while a game gets away.
