Word: off-the-cuff
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...than the one that exists between him and Hunter Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 and other boozy, spaced-out analyses of the American body politic. Thompson met Carter in 1974 at a University of Georgia Law Day ceremony, where Carter gave an off-the-cuff speech. So impressed was Thompson by the speech that he got a tape recording of it, which he often plays at odd hours of the night...
This time, Rocky's off-the-cuff remarks became a matter of public record. A Republican leader who had listened to him at the Georgia gathering got in touch with David Nordan, political editor of the Atlanta Journal. "Don't you think you press guys should expose this?" the Republican demanded. After checking the caller's account with three other individuals who had heard the Vice President's remarks, Nordan pieced the story together and the Journal ran it on Page One last week...
...added that Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, made an "off-the-cuff calculation" last spring of the costs of one proposed system...
...belief that he could reach a wider audience by forcing each spectator to create his own setting from his imagination and his own personal experience, a more authentic reality thereby resulting. University was Wilder's goal, as he made clear near the conclusion of his off-the-cuff talk to 15,000 people at Harvard's 1951 graduation (at the end of which President Conant called Wilder's remarks "the most significant I have ever heard from an academic man on a commencement program"). Wilder stated: "All literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce...
...best known face in the world floated into a sold-out Burden Auditorium last Wednesday night and delivered a combination of poems, off-the-cuff sparring with the audience and a prepared lecture on friendship to a receptive crowd...