Word: quip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Night at the Opera. Even la Sills, usually the best prepared of singers, became momentarily confused. At the full-dress rehearsal of Bolena, she lost her way in Anna's prayer scene and began to repeat herself. Ever the pro, Sills tossed off the mistake with a quip: "It is such a pretty aria, once is good but twice is better...
...same Breslin style. Yet subtly, underneath, it's not the same Breslin. Under the tough exterior, under the quick quip and the profanity, is a legitimate interest in people...
...Donald's quip to his student disciple--particularly his idealization of New England--would probably confuse many of the Harvard students who have already begun to seek him out as a "fellow Southerner." Raised in the hill country of Mississippi and graduated from Mississippi's Millsaps College, Donald retains deep affinities with the people and culture of his native South...
...brisk playfulness of Brian Murray's direction somewhat masks the vein of melancholy that runs through Anouilh's best characters. Their gaiety is inverted mourning. They suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. "T.E.Kalem
...both the White House and the Justice Department, officials resorted to black humor, forming betting pools on just who would be indicted by the grand jury. A commonly heard quip was: "Well, let's hope they go to jail with honor." The situation seemed to be spinning out of anyone's control...