Word: remarkable
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...mentor, wiser and blonder, lets the remark pass. She takes out a small bottle and sprays her face. "Baby oil. Gives you that fresh, dewy look." But doesn't it smudge? "Oh, you never let them play kissy face-it ruins your makeup." They depart from the premises, the big bimbo's cleavage prompting admiring stares from a mother and daughter in windbreakers...
Many people, when they find themselves with time on their hands, will say, "I have some time to kill." This remark expresses a subtle form of suicide. Spend time, yes. Kill time, never...
...seeing the stairway ascend to the Coliseum torch was merely a gloss on the fact that the torch was lighted. Everything was startling, but the same. Tunes were played. The kids marched in and out. Odd to think that 52 years from now people may look back and remark with deep wisdom: How naive they were. How mindless...
Which is why Addabbo far more closely articulated the spirit of democracy as it is commonly understood, when he responded to Weinberger with the following remark, quoted in the Washington Post. "I think we do a great service to our national security," he said. "By publicizing the report and spotlighting it, maybe we'll get some attention to the waste and fraud...
CONVENTION. A feminist once wrote that when a woman hears a slighting remark about her role in life, she sometimes also hears a remarkable sound: click. That is the moment of recognition, the sound of things falling into place. Just like that: click. Geraldine Ferraro probably heard the sound when a New York law firm's senior partner, who had been interviewing her for a job, finally said, "You're wonderful, but we're not hiring any women this year." Click. Or perhaps when her employer explained why other department heads were getting higher pay: "But, Gerry...