Word: quipping
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...whose funniest movie this is, has a way with them that is very ingratiating. He falls about a bit in his patented manner, but basically he keeps surprising ) with the competence that lies just beneath his disarming air of distractedness. In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. Incidentally, they add greatly to the movie's suspense. Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into...
Children run in and out of the frame at a sprightly clip, but the center of attention is always Dad: no bit of action goes by without a quip, double take or comic harangue. It upsets the show's balance and throws off its rhythm. Significantly, Cosby's jokes are often followed by a reaction shot of a family member laughing. Smart comic that he is, Cosby has brought his audience onstage...
...Reagan's quip touched on a blind spot in outside perceptions of the Soviet Union. The world has dealt for so long with a gerontocracy in Moscow that it knows next to nothing about the men of Gorbachev's generation who will move forward now that he has breached the generational dividing wall. Will better education and greater exposure make them more flexible in their thinking and more accommodating in their dealings with foreigners? Or will they master the ways of the West, but only to pursue better the Soviet Union's long-standing interests...
...recently, Regan startled even his harshest critics with his proposal for the most sweeping reform of federal tax laws since World War II. Among those who have endorsed the proposal are Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution and Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader--a following that prompted Regan to quip, "What have I done wrong?" The President has not embraced the whole package, but he did call it "the best proposal for changing the tax system that has ever occurred within my lifetime...
...S.R.O. for this Johnny Carson in alb and chasuble, who keeps the customers satisfied with ingratiating patter-dinner and a show for the price of your soul. Off-pulpit, Father Farley is a bit of a sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach him a few punch lines, figure out where God fits into all this...