Word: quipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future politician trying to balance out the two factions in her party: those who believe in everything--gray aliens, the Gnomes of Zurich and every other conspiracy theory that slithers across the Net--and those who believe in absolutely nothing unless you can tie it in to a snide quip about The Brady Bunch. Maybe Abbie Hoffman saw this coming and just didn't want to have to think about...
...borrowed from a late novel by Mary McCarthy, who lifted the name from Audubon's celebrated book of avian engravings. But Moore might as well have used Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud's classic essay on humor. The bemused and angry women in Birds defiantly quip their way through trouble. "When I'm sleeping with someone, I'm less obsessed with the mail," says a lonely ex-film star. A reluctant wife explains her conjugal state with the comment, "I married my husband because I thought it would be a great way to meet guys." Moore...
Clinton blushed at the quip...
...article (News, April 9), the Putnam is the only college math competition, while there are many for high school students. We jump at the opportunity to recapture a part of our youth. Perhaps the word "pathetic" is inappropriate, but I was merely putting in a self-degrading quip. This phrase was in no way meant to refer to the persons who fall into the category "anyone interested in math...
Safire responded to a quip from another veteran journalist, Shorenstein Center Director Marvin Kalb, who introduced him last night, with characteristic...