Word: quipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...
...when she flies to Moscow. The two even share private jokes. During one of their first meetings, Albright recounted that she learned that her Georgetown house was infested with termites. Now, whenever Primakov's aides try to quibble over a promise he has just made in negotiations, Albright will quip, "The termites are back," and the two laugh...
...permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands of recreational vehicles, or RVs, that Americans are calling home. "Oh, we have a home, all right," Sutherland likes to quip. "It just depends on where we are at the moment...
Reti was joking, of course. Grandmasters typically look about five moves ahead in a given position, and sometimes many more. But Reti's quip captures something at the heart of human chess-playing ability: intuition. And in so far as humans rely on intuition rather than calculation for the decisions of everyday life, his statement captures what is at the heart of human intelligence more generally...
...Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn't include an audibly rapturous female audience member or an unalloyed Sinatra quip in response: "Get your hand off that broad...