Word: quip
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...chairman longer than anyone else, from 1951 until 1970, when he retired. The last two Presidents to reappoint Martin, Kennedy and Johnson, would have preferred to name their own man to the job, but they stayed with Martin because of pressure from financiers around the world. Moneymen used to quip that Martin was worth his weight in gold because he kept the dollar strong...
...with the Administration, suggests former longtime CBS White House Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, is that the confrontational style, far from putting the President on the spot, "has played right into Reagan's hands. Donaldson and others intrude with a simple shot, and Reagan bounces it back with a shallow quip that plays beautifully onscreen. The exchange gives the appearance that he has answered the question when he has not." Says Donaldson: "Sometimes what comes out of my mouth is not carefully formed, and that can let Reagan off the hook...
...most of his previous works, Neil Simon has parried the perils of heart-to-heart emotional commitment with a disarming quip. A loose upper lip has been his tactic for keeping pain in quarantine. With an ironclad consistency, he has been the Man in the Comic Mask...
...spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes, Hawkeye occasionally looked as if he were campaigning for canonization. But he could still bend, and come near breaking, whether in realizing he had a serious drinking problem or in surrendering to the inexplicable but powerful erotic appeal...
...such a way, or for silk to fall so unhurriedly, like a dove on a light wind? The clothes of this period were an exercise in sensual extravagance, not only of highflying technical virtuosity but of high-flown social aggression. A gown by Worth was more effective than a quip that silenced a rival. Its beauty seemed inviolate: 19th century social armor...