Word: cuff
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...intensity and the passion for the job. A graduate of Cornell and the Columbia School of Journalism, she became a Chicago-based correspondent this year after stints as a reporter in TIME's People, Nation and Society sections. Approaching her assignments as a terrier does a trouser cuff, she hustled an exclusive interview with University of Michigan cyberpornographer Jake Baker days before his arrest by the FBI. She also uncovered a potentially dangerous internal revolt by a breakaway militant faction of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Republicans have no single candidate who can beat Gore. He's shown his mettle in debates, especially against Ross Perot's demagoguery. Unlike all four Republican presidents since Eisenhower, Gore can put together a complete sentence off the cuff...
...Monday, Christine Todd Whitman slashed taxes in New Jersey. On Tuesday, as the first Governor asked to give the official rebuttal to a State of the Union address, she started cutting into Bill Clinton. From a partisan point of view, she did not disappoint, starting with an off-the-cuff jab at the 81- minute speech. ``I am not going to ask for equal time,'' she joshed. But long after Clinton's speech, pundits and political operatives were still mulling over Whitman. Might this be the G.O.P.'s 1996 vice-presidential candidate...
...opens the morning's edition of the New York Times and begins reading headlines of the day, complete with quips and off-the-cuff observations. A scorecard at the end of the first five minutes shows that exactly one joke was funny. To look at all the gray-haired ladies splitting their sides with laughter, however, makes one wonder if maybe his humor is an adult thing, like knowing how to fill out a tax form. Mort Sahl's audience loves...
...Professor Greenblatt enlivens the class with many anecdotes--fascinating footnotes and asides about the plays and Shakespeare's time," says teaching fellow Chris Miller. "Greenblatt also seems more than willing to entertain off the cuff remarks blurted out during the course of his lecture. They simply become absorbed into the stream of his commentary...