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...code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back ("Bob, we need to get going"); she rubs his hand ("Don't look so glum--smile!"); she loops her arm around his waist and firmly tugs ("Quit talking to these reporters, and don't make any of your smart-aleck jokes"). On the podium, she will nudge him gently toward a better camera angle or come to his aid by grasping an unwieldy gooseneck mike that...
...said, he attached the word "alleged" to every event of religious significance, as in "the alleged Crucifixion" or "the alleged parting of the Red Sea." The tactic never worked. "[The editors] just crossed it out," Trillin confesses. "If there was anything they had had experience with, it was smart-aleck writers...
...rest of the characters don't really react to Phillip's posturing or to the traumas of the third act; McCullers has them go right on being the pushy belle, the sniffling old maid, the smart aleck kid, and the love struck good guy, even as Phillip self-destructs. The imbalance of the heavy drama with the trite filler of the other characters is uneven, unsettling, and unsatisfactory...
...street smarts, Walt buys this line. Luckily for him the master is not a child molester but a visionary entrepreneur. He puts the little smart aleck through several years of grueling physical and spiritual drills. One day Walt finds himself rising off the kitchen floor. What he has learned is not how to fly, exactly, but how to perform increasingly prolonged and baroque feats of levitation...
...brother and I got off the Green Line trolley car at the unnamed stop in front of the Holiday Inn on Beacon St. I remember that it was 10:45 p.m., because when I told Michael that I was going to buy the New York Times then, the smart-aleck said, "Yeah...