A legendary wit and conversationalist Healy also made a number of celebrated BBC broadcasts during the war years.

A legendary wit, a fearsome critic, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter-there's a lot to love about Dorothy Parker.

The pavilion will certainly give visitors a crash course in Johnson's legendary wit, for what he has designed is an orientation center whose chief function is disorientation - a bending, rippling, twisting structure with an interior that puts computerized morphs to shame.

If, as critics suggest, Perelman's legendary wit is dated but classically so, not to worry - we can find comfort in the classic au courant essays of "If You Can't Say Something Nice."

Capturing the warmhearted and generous spirit of the legendary wit, he examined Wilde's ascent to literary prominence and his public downfall.

After he shot that scene, he says, he called the director Alan Rudolph, who had written a script with Randy Sue Coburn about Dorothy Parker and the other legendary wits of the Algonquin Round Table.

Subjected to an investigation by the Trustees, Bartlett employed what had become a legendary wit and finely honed intelligence to explain his actions and defend his administration.

One thing that remains unchanged about Mr. Edwards is his legendary tart wit, and sometimes imperious regard of himself.

It was a relationship I treasured, and I had come to know some of the nuances lurking within Billy's legendary wit.

He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's "cool jazz" scene, and the possessor of a legendary and idiosyncratic wit.