It's not all witty barbs and razor blades, 'Thirsty Bird' also helps set up the plot for this season.
It is worth pausing to imagine scores of Burmese bureaucrats walking briskly through the halls of government offices, trading witty barbs and inspirational quotations on their way to creating a contemporary democratic utopia.
25 Bonnie/Terry Turner $45 million John Lithgow, 3rd Rock from the Sun star, once considered the show to be a step down from his movie career, but the witty barbs of Bonnie and Terry Turner proved to be a cash cow for all three.
Those witty barbs so casually tossed off from barstools in tacky Midwestern gay bars, for example, can curdle into mere bitchiness in a flash.
i realise you were simply firing off a standard 'witty' barb in the spirit of "we support our local team - especially when they're playing United at home", but even so you really could do better.
Even more puckishly, the Franks campaign has set up a Web site, www.mruniversal.com, that depicts Mr. Corzine's face over a cartooned muscleman's body, and leavens Mr. Franks's more serious attacks with satirical barbs that range from witty to sophomoric.
But the elegantly attired Boulez, who could be charming and witty in person, still could deliver barbs.
Rather than having gender friction, couples display gender hostility where quips feel more like digs and witty foreplay sound more like angry barbs.
Harriet Radius (Sidney Fortner, who also designed the witty costumes) and Corderoy Codliver (Noelle McGrath) trade barbs as catty socialites wearing crinoline dresses nearly as voluminous as their egos.
So would barbs and jokes from these two atypically witty candidates.
So do Ann Richards and Molly Ivins, a pair of bright, witty women, one a former governor, the other a syndicated newspaper columnist, who find plenty of targets hereabouts for their barbs.
