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IVillage, Marketwatch, MP3, TheStreet.com, The Globe, Koop.com, Wit Capital: All of these companies were once darlings of the market and now see their stocks trade in very narrow ranges not much above--and in some cases below--the prices at which they went public.
Tall and sharp-featured, she's a fount of caustic one-liners, and her stabbing wit makes her look more angular yet.
that the biographer is himself a fine writer, bearing with grace his knowledge of Irish history, and writing with wit, authority and, when appropriate, considerable eloquence," says Thomas Flanagan in the New York Times Book Review . (See James Wood's enthusiastic review in Slate.)
Actually, in the preceding dialogue, three ladies from the highest level of society can be cited for innocently mentioning the unmentionables in no less than twenty-plus instances, to wit:
At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.