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Cold-eyed and distant, Hoss doesn't make a naturally sympathetic heroine, but her resourcefulness under pressure comes to matter in a tense, taut drama with some crafty wit up its sleeve.

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Ron, who's seen presidential wit and humor up close, thinks POTUS 44 is comedically about the best ever presidentially in this setting... but then "he has great speech writers, timing and material from opponents".

Frances's friend Patti Sandra Ohh), a pregnant Asian-American lesbian with a sharp wit, shows up in Tuscany.

If the Muniz survey, for all its playful wit, ends up being bittersweet, Mr. Stainback's other show, "S.O.S: Scenes of Sounds," has the feel of a high-spirited party.

Mr. Quiñones, a fidgety, slight man with a sassy wit, grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, raised by a friend of an absent mother and a father he met only once.

But this hi-tech film, inspired by the original Isaac Asimov short-story collection from 1950, somehow manages to overlook the subversive potential, and it's low on wit, coming up with a good-looking but ultimately inert movie with a feeble non-ending that gave me a pain in all the diodes down my left side.

When Margaret Edson's Wit gave up the West End after a scant six weeks in 2000, having run more than a year in New York, several American theatre folk asked me whether they ought to have done it instead with Fiona Shaw at the Hampstead Theatre, not with someone unknown to Londoners - American actress Kathleen Chalfant - in the harsh commercial glare of the West End.

Mr. Adams's grandfather was able to outfox competitors during his reign with little more than an enterprising spirit and a quick wit, coming up with itch powder on the heels of the pirating of his sneeze powder, and then stink bombs, exploding cigars, squirting roses -- in all, gags for which he eventually secured 37 patents.

He was a ladies' man, full of humour and wit and up for anything, and that spirit - he had an amazing spirit".

Thirty signs with illustrated bulletins of urban frustration, irony, and wit cropped up in Manhattan last weekend.

The competitors had several hours between the news conference and the competition to gather their wits, mess up their hair and apply their spandex.

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