Word: cuff
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There he goes again. Just when White House aides were recovering from President Clinton's recent off-the-cuff remarks that he'd raised taxes too much and that the nation was in a "funk," the President has confounded Democrats once more by confiding his self-doubts to a conservative pundit. During his hour-long phone call Wednesday with Ben Wattenberg, according to The New York Times, Clinton said he was dissatified with his own welfare reform proposal and distressed that he had wandered from a moderate democratic philosophy. "This is Bill Clinton once again thinking out loud about...
...willing to wait on its long weekend lines, its doors are open to you. Most of us know full well by now, and for those first-year students who do not, the policeman who stands at the door next to the bouncer, Dave, is not going to cuff you and read you your rights...
Earlier this year, political commentators laughed off Newi Gingrich's suggestion that homeless individuals could find upward mobility by acquiring laptops and joining the information age. Yet unlike most of the off-the-cuff comments which have cost the Speaker credibility over the past few months, this comment revealed part of the deeper structure of Republican plans for hegemony over the coming years. As the United States enters its post-industrial age, the conservative Congress is working hard to ensure continuing close ties with the builders of the information highway...
...sarcastic, off the cuff, and the reporter treated it as such. It was a remark not to be taken seriously," Jacoby said, noting that the comment had been far down in the story. "The AP [Associated Press] reporter put in the first paragraph. It was a little bit shamefully treated...
Sedgwick's character was given the best lines in the movie. Unlike the rest of the characters, Emma Rae knows exactly who she is and what she wants. And she breezes through every scene, tossing out off-the-cuff, sardonic zingers with a grace one doesn't often see in today's movies. Sedgwick is no abrasive Roseanne Barr type--she is utterly feminine in short skirts and sheer hose, even as she knees Quaid in the groin and announces, "Well I feel better...