Word: off-the-cuff
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...Masculine/Feminine every move of Jean-Luc Godard's camera or actors seems whimsical and capricious. The result is off-the-cuff brilliance with interruptions...
Bevel was happy enough with the way things went to suggest, off-the-cuff, that they march on the White House. Other Mobilization officials jumped at the idea and the date was set, May 17. They telegrammed President Johnson Monday night, telling him to get out of Vietnam in a month or get ready for visitors...
Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The three-month homicide trial of Rodney Harrington, accused of killing Joe Chernak in an off-the-cuff scuffle, culminates in a verdict...
...STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the eloquent purposes they served does him no great service and gives the listener little sustenance...