Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stern or a Rush Limbaugh, he would just rant and rave, regardless of the consequences. Jackie, however, tries to find a balance that seemingly doesn't exist, between speaking freely and still trying to qualify dangerous statements (like his brazenly racist quips). For instance, he offers us the previous comment on Jewish wives and their timid husbands and elicits audience hysteria; the mood, however, turns somber when he immediately adds "But adultery is nothing to laugh over. Adulterers are no subject for comedy." Why ruin the mood? Why make the audience nervous to laugh...
Gould was not available for comment...
...worker answered a question about the religious tags hanging from his hardhat, "I just figure you need every added blessing you can get. We're dealing with life and death every second down there." When asked whether anything dangerous occurs at his site, another construction worker refuses to comment, admitting, "I can't talk about it. That's for the PR guys at the office to talk about. Look for yourself then you can decide whether it's dangerous or not." Glancing down the 100-foot deep shaft gives a pretty good idea of what he's talking about...
Noble could not be reached yesterday. Eugene C. McAfee, senior tutor of Lowell House, was unavailable for comment...
...hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...