Word: gibe
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...capture perfectly the persistent understanding gap between economists and politicians. One was when a member asked an exasperated Rubin if IMF funding was an issue that Congress should take home to their constituents and take up again in 1999. The other was Greenspan?s retort to Leach?s gibe about his comprehensibility: "If I spoke English," Greenspan said, smiling, "you wouldn?t understand...
...this newspaper about the current crop of Rhodes and Marshall scholarship nominees began by jokingly noting that the students who had been nominated were finally beginning to reap the rewards of "staying home all those Saturday nights." While it was nothing more than a mild and probably fairly accurate gibe, this line is indicative of a certain resentful "Yeah, they got nominated, but at least they have no social life" attitude toward these people who are some of the most hardworking and successful students at Harvard...
...library system, recalls that the emissaries from Redmond, Washington, were dubious: "One of them asked, 'Will this be like the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle falls out of the sky and no one knows what to do with it?'" Kaplan shrugged off the gibe, saying, "No, it'll be like the movie Field of Dreams--build it, and they will come...
...unrestricted kinds of contributions. Hell, if you're going to fight, you need all the weapons at your disposal. When he took over, there was only one person regularly doing press relations; now there are six. He hired a full-time cartoonist who creates at least one political gibe a day, faxed to thousands of newspapers around the country. And Kerrey insisted the committee do its own polling...
...Good Company. The latter show is set at an ad agency where copywriters spent most of one episode ridiculing a "toilet paper with baking soda"--a product actually sold by P&G rival Scott Paper. While P&G also owns several long-running daytime soap operas, the baking soda gibe is the sort of "product message" (a.k.a. advertisement) that gains mileage and legitimacy when slipped sub rosa into a prime-time showcase. (P&G swears that all creative decisions are Paramount...