Just about anything that can be done to an automobile to turn it into a garish art object is on display in "Wild Wheels," Harrod Blank's witty cinematic survey of American car art.

An elegant, often witty, survey of the history and culture of a great city that fate has made relatively unfamiliar, by an art critic for Time magazine.

Mr. Whyte conducts a witty and knowledgeable survey of the Sinatra canon.

The Baltimore sleuth Tess Monaghan is on hand when the mysterious figure who visits the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on his birthday is joined by a second Poe Toaster who is murdered on the spot, necessitating a witty survey of local legends surrounding the father of the American mystery story.

HATRED and fascination are the two disparate strains that run through "The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003," a witty survey of art about the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Times was equally lavish in its praise, describing Hartley's vision in the novel as "a brilliantly witty survey of certain contemporary trends and weaknesses".

A witty, impassioned survey by the Australian critic.