Word: quip
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...they're evil." In public and private, it has also become clear that Bush has a swelling disdain for European officials, relegating the pesky nit-pickers to the itchy class in which he has banished university elites, journalists and blow-hard members of Congress. He echoed Colin Powell's quip that the French foreign minister suffered an attack of the vapors when he suggested the "axis of evil" formulation was simplistic. In a private meeting with Japanese officials, it was Powell who had to explain what "apoplectic" meant to his counterpart when Bush used that word to refer...
...macho. Pitt bursts the bubble when he asks, “You’ve been rehearsing that, haven’t you?” Clooney responds: “A little, did I rush? I felt like I rushed.” With any other director, the quip might have been left on the cutting room floor, but with its inclusion, Soderbergh breaks down cliche and gives himself licence to stretch the bounds of convention. Dusty avoids the Rat Pack’s liquid lunch of scotch and soda and instead spoons yogurt by the crateful, and Linus...
...Angular, amiable and seldom at a loss for a quip, Pickard, a blunt Queens native, recently joked to colleagues that life reminded him of "Groundhog Day," the Bill Murray farce about a man doomed to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again. "The briefings begin at 5:55 a.m. By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead, and we're just starting," he told one friend...
...definition of ‘is’ is and it was the coolly detached age of irony. Now people ask what the definition of irony is and it is just confusing. Is irony a stance of instinctive mockery where anything with or without a pulse demands a deprecating quip, or is it a smart, potent tool of analysis and detachment that is all the more important in a country’s dark hour? It turns out that irony—the smart kind—and patriotism, in its flag-flying, blood-giving glory, are both resilient...
...makes up for the crime that was Original Sin MICHAEL JORDAN Aging MJ returns to the NBA; will donate his entire salary to terrorism victims. Nike to come out with slamming new "Air Rocking Chair" Losers BILL MAHER Politically Incorrect host is castigated by White House after politically incorrect quip. In war, comedy is always the first casualty STARBUCKS Coffee giant apologizes after a N.Y. franchise charges rescue workers $130 for water. So this is why the rest of the world hates globalization HALIFAX POLICE Canadian cops suspend a police officer who pitched in at the WTC site without permission...