Word: cleverisms
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These days Gelbart works in an office suite adjacent to his Beverly Hills house. To talk with him is to watch the writing process in action. He continually tosses out clever phrases only to edit himself aloud until he strikes upon even more clever phrases. He seems almost ageless with his ready laugh and animated, unlined face. As for his good health, he credits genetics--his dad lived to 90--but quips that his only diet and exercise regimen is "to keep working and try not to get too hungry or sedentary...
...thrilled with both. Yes, his party's florid assortment of wing nuts was outraged. But the President has been very clever about fertilizing the conservative hothouse in ways that do not reach the consciousness of the general public-and who else is Jerry Falwell going to vote for anyway? On the other hand, if the court had recriminalized sodomy or abolished affirmative action, the vast sensible center of American politics might have started drifting back toward the Democrats. The party's activists, especially minority groups, civil libertarians and the Hollywood faction, would have been re-energized. One can imagine...
...conservative, even though it is predominantly Northern, urban and African American. He isn't above political opportunism of the basest sort - he has changed his position on free trade to suit Iowa's protectionist labor skates, and a cynic might argue that his position on Iraq was a clever response to a market void. But Dean is a master of the snappy formulation. He tells audiences, for example, that the President's tax cuts will "raise local property taxes and reduce services." This has the virtue of being accurate - there will be less money to cities and towns - and accessible...
...service to Munich from Newark and schedule a Chicago-to-Dusseldorf flight starting in June. The carrier will not say whether the route is profitable, but it has been flying at a healthy 60% of capacity. Among U.S. business travelers, Indigo is attracting almost as much attention for its clever use of secondary airports like Teterboro and, starting in June, White Plains, N.Y. Indigo CEO Pete Pappas, a longtime American executive, is a seasoned pro who sweats the little things--like promising a 6-ft. 8-in. frequent flyer a seat in the spacious exit row for all his trips...
...unusually warm and has what I would call an energetic sense of humor,” he says. “She’s very quick and is fun to talk to. She’s witty and clever, sometimes almost wickedly clever...