"A Night in Manhattan," the wittiest section of the show, weaves bits of classic songs about New York into a phantasmagoria of urban frustrations.
These poems tend to be short and witty with single sections.
That little chatty throwaway section of witty comments about the field?
In Mr. Robb's new book one chapter is written like a screenplay, while another employs witty question-and-answer sections that function like lemon juice squeezed over a platter of oysters.
There's background/foreground, the way he keeps flicking his attention between repetitive vamps — pure rhythm-section hypnosis — and witty improvisations and quotations from old songs.
"Groove and Countermove," the closing section, begins on a note of witty fun, with two women grooving coolly and obliviously to Latin-flavored music.
There are many moments in the two-hour show when this animated world comes fabulously alive, most notably an early section in which disembodied green limbs create witty, ever-changing images of birds, flowers, faces and abstract patterns.
The section was conceived as a compendium of witty, incisive commentary on the best of New York City's cultural offerings what's going on in jazz clubs, cinemas, museums, opera houses, and Broadway theatres.
If you've got a favorite cheese, and a fragrant way with words, we here at the Dining section cordially invite you to submit the wittiest description of that cheese that you can dream up.
In the bacchanale of the "Fall " section, Alexandra Ansanelli's abandon and Damian Woetzel's witty bravura brought out Robbins's gloss on Soviet-style pyrotechnics.
