Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days." At one point during the conversations, Foster's freshmen roommates giggled in the background. "They're laughing at you," she said to Hinckley, and to the girls in an aside: "I should tell him I am sitting here with a knife." Hinckley heard the remark. "Well," he assured her, "I'm not dangerous, I promise you that...
...take exception to the interpretation in the book review of Presidential Anecdotes [Aug. 24] of John Quincy Adams' remark, "Well, I suppose she combs yours now," as indicating a lack of small talk. In its day it would have been an apt and humorous response. In the 18th or 19th century, to "comb one's hair" or to "comb one's head" meant to scold...
...accident that the papers Hearst owns in Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle are the troubled second papers in those cities. "The Hearst papers have been on a downhill slide for 30 years and are now a third-rate chain," says Allen H. Neuharth. The arrogance of Neuharth's remark comes from his success in building up the profitable Gannett chain of more than 80 newspapers, many of them local monopolies. Most exemplify the new blenderized newspaper, which leaves no mark because it has so little sting. But if newspapers are similar in tone and coverage, who needs to read...
...remark is made with airy irony, but the fact is that she went through an ugly-duckling stage in late childhood?glasses, fat cheeks, permed hair and a bossy, show-offy disposition, as she recalls it. "She was pretty ghastly," admits her younger brother "Third" (Harry Streep III), 30, a modern dancer who heads the Third Dance Theater in Manhattan. It was by no means a terrible childhood, Streep says now. The family lived comfortably in a succession of pleasant New Jersey towns. Harry Streep II was a pharmaceutical company executive, and his wife Mary Louise a commercial artist...
McFarlane and his staff keep a close eye on the guards, searching for some who have been imported from the south because they understand Gaelic. Prisoners try to trick guards who are suspect, making a shocking remark to them in Gaelic about killing their children. If they see as much as a flicker of response, they know. Ordinarily, prisoners never speak to the guards directly or even look at them. It is part of the endless psychological...