Word: hand
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Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangles in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
Anyone who was on hand for Williams' stand up performance at the Lampoon Comedy Night two years ago will be well aware that his manic comedic talents are nothing short of inspired. In front of an audience the quiet, mild-mannered Williams of private life becomes transfigured into a comic dervish, wildly improvising on audience suggestions in a combination of ultra-free association and vocal impersonation that works quicker than the eye can catch...
...difference between the eccentric and the weirdo is, in its way, the difference between a man with a teddy bear in his hand and a man with a gun. We are also, of course, besieged by other kinds of deviants -- crackpots, oddballs, fanatics, quacks and cranks. But the weirdo and the eccentric define between them that invisible line at which strangeness acquires an edge and oddness becomes menace...
Wilson's sleight of hand escaped the notice of most members of Congress, as well as of President Reagan, who signed it into law. And no wonder: the legislation that included the provision was 2,100 pages long, and it lumped together 13 appropriations bills that should have been passed individually. In one gargantuan gulp, the omnibus bill amounted to $603.9 billion, or nearly two-thirds of the total funding for Federal Government operations in fiscal...
...baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...