Word: quip
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...fire. There was the time near the end of his tenure as Today executive producer when Zucker, who was only 26 when he made the show the morning leader, hired a helicopter to buzz over an outdoor concert for ABC's Good Morning America. Then there was his recent quip to an industry trade publication that "most of the viewers of [CBS] are in nursing homes." At last spring's network up-front presentation, where advertisers decide how to spend their billions on the upcoming fall schedule, Zucker made the bold claim that despite the retirement of such stalwarts...
...have an offense,” Knowles responded candidly. This, of course, reminded me of the famous quip by former Tampa Bay Buccaneer head coach John McKay. When asked about the execution of his offense, McKay responded, “I think it’s a good idea...
Princeton’s Roger Hughes and Yale’s Jack Siedlecki rounded out the powwow. Hughes addressed the loss of his top receiver B.J. Szymanski, who accepted a $700,000 signing bonus to join the Cincinnati Reds organization. He then threw in some classically Princetonian quip about that amount of money not fitting in a financial aid package that garnered a few laughs but didn’t move me enough to write down...
...Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Cornering his subject on the mechanics of changing a tire—a point of no relevance to the campaign whatsoever—Colbert held a posse of credentialed media and delegates spellbound, eagerly awaiting his next unscripted quip...
Makabali mentions several factors that discourage undergraduates from doing this, to which my only response can be to quip that many things in life are discouraging. Having to intentionally carve out one’s own study of race theory from within a discipline that tends to dichotomize race—or having to intentionally cobble together one’s own study of the history of Asian-American marginalization and dehumanization from an amalgam of disciplines that tend to overlook their common linkages—would make for a far more robust learning experience. With those goals in mind...