Word: offhanded
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...work of someone taking a long look in from the outside, and this, paradoxically, is its greatest strength. The whole series practically reels from the excitement of discovery. The history is fresh, the music is new to Burns, who, he has said, knew almost nothing about jazz until an offhand remark by a baseball player being interviewed for his previous series set him to thinking and got him listening. The rest of us can hear Ellington play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have...
...Gore] that you don't get any other way." Gore's mother, Pauline Gore, shaped her son's relentlessly left-lobe way of looking at the world. And his wife Tipper helped awaken his latent emotional side. "What really got me interested in doing this story was an offhand comment Tipper made in an interview I did with her three years ago," Tumulty says. "She said the discipline in [Gore's] thinking came from his mother, and it occurred to me that if you could understand that, you could understand a lot about Al Gore. It's really...
...most part, Klein sustains the mastery of storytelling mechanics that he demonstrated in Colors. The plot accelerates to a fitting climax, goosed along by enough offhand apercus and knowing set pieces to satisfy any reader interested in The Way We Politick Now. If this reporter has more novels inside him, let them come...
...showmanship by Apple's Steve Jobs, tech buffs had plenty to buzz about last week. At Macworld Expo in San Francisco, a long-overdue Mac operating system drew only polite applause and new PowerBooks rumored to be ready never debuted, but Jobs brought loyalists to their feet with an offhand remark that he will drop "interim" from his title and be the permanent iCEO (i for Internet). Meanwhile, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the throngs seemed almost as mesmerized by the cafeteria's curly fries as they were by the newest generation of high-definition...
...profits came only from the first cycle of theatrical and video release. But this suit was personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes for an autobiography, that "I think I hate the little midget"--a remark notable not just for its animosity but also for its redundancy (a former English professor of Eisner's called the CEO to make just that point). The gibe, says a Katzenberg colleague, "was so painful...