| 1. | He's also not bad when it comes to meaningless apercus.
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| 2. | Who was better at the lethal apercu than Frank Rich?
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| 3. | Hine has a knack for couching his apercus in clear, pithy language.
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| 4. | But Ms . Shelly's screenplay doesn't contain a single pithy apercu.
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| 5. | Rather, he rambles through the centuries and across continents, dispensing anecdotes, apercus and curious facts.
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| 6. | With their patterned verses and carefully prepared apercus, they remain within time-tested country and folk formats.
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| 7. | These are comparatively songlike, their apercus concentrated in hook lines that are surrounded by more quotidian stuff ."
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| 8. | It dispensed Wilde's apercus with a brittle insouciance that is largely missing from this souped-up version.
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| 9. | In a production that is otherwise so short of ideas, such tiny apercus announce themselves like fire engines and drown out mere speech.
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| 10. | Planting salty apercus among strings of goofy rhymes, Prine contemplates the absurdity of the human condition with a skewed, sideways sense of humor.
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