Word: rapier
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...monopoly on it. That's right, Dewitt went to see the movie, and as he was walking, he met this really nice, attractive, intelligent woman who took a liking for him immediately, who admired his rugged individualism, his rapier wit, and his physical prowess. He admired her good taste. They talked, long into the night...
...were well known when the race began, they have already buried several important myths by the side of the campaign trail. After two months of nasty wisecracks about Bush's privileged background, it is hard to remember all the solemn discussions of the "new" Bob Dole, a man whose rapier wit allegedly had been sheathed by marriage and maturity. In truth, there is nothing like a new Dole; there remains a cutting edge, even a mean streak, to much of his humor. But there are healthy signs that he can direct the barbs at himself when warranted. When his snideness...
Perhaps reality lies somewhere between the rapier thrust and the sympathetic ear. There may be a tendency for women to be more jealous of one another than men are of their colleagues, says Niles Newton, a behavioral scientist at Northwestern Medical School. That stems, she thinks, "from insecurities because they haven't been in the workplace as long as men." Assertiveness and rivalry also make many women feel uncomfortable, "and it becomes much more a problem in the workplace, where they are a natural occurrence," says Anne Frenkel, a social worker with the Chicago Women's Therapy Collective. "Women have...
...networks' courtly euphemism for their censorship departments. But it is a dafter delusion, on Broadcast Row or Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue or any other center of American power these days, to think that old-fashioned moral standards have much to do with today's lean, mean, rapier-clean business practices. Does a news organization, like the one in Broadcast News, employ too many talented men and women to keep its profits proud and its corporate raiders on hold? Then it will package the old reliables and promote the young presentables -- including a good-looking network reporter with nothing...
...GUESS you're wondering why I called you all here today," I said, not being able to resist the temptation to exercise my rapier-like...