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Dartboard wonders if this type of excuse would work here at Harvard. If ever asked why she missed a section or failed to turn an assignment in on time, she is determined to flash one of Bush’s glib smirks—always present at the most inappropriate of moments—and tell her TF that a good excuse just hasn’t “popped” into her head...
...think work. Although, in the end, people work just as hard to make a good movie as a bad movie, and you don’t want to be too glib about it because it does represent a huge chunk of time and money. The same ten hours you spent watching those movies [Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, The Postman and Wyatt Earp], people spent a lot more than that trying to get those movie made, and you know how heartbreaking that...
...most tedious questions to have to answer." He caught his tone and changed it. "It's just the funniest question, because you're supposed to take it seriously, but music is influenced by many other things. It's just such a gigantic question. I've never found a satisfactorily glib answer that can deal with it and put it away...
Skirting a storm of criticism, Gephardt attempted to remain glib...
...Pulitzer Prize. But the knee-jerk conception of USA Today as a vapid, happy-news paper has been an outdated cliche for more than a decade. True, early versions of the paper, founded in 1982, were known for columns like Offbeat USA ("The Human Side of the News")--glib news bits that sent the message "Hey, we know this is news, but don't be scared. We'll make it easy...