Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walking back from yesterday's baseball game between Harvard and Boston College, I over-heard one of the players make a remark about how the team was not getting a lot of coverage in the Crimson...
...scabrously derogatory manner to men's assumed ineptitude in things domestic, notably cooking. Had a male commentator reported with the same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...well. Cory serenades Mike with such sweet compliments that his eventual brutality comes as a shame, but also as a relief; if she had shut up and calmed down earlier, Mike wouldn't have had to take control of the situtation, slap her around and rape her. (This remark is not politically correct and neither is the tone of the play.) After the violation occurs, Cory does the only thing an irresponsible youth is conditioned to do: overdose. Only, like a total fool, she swallows a bottle of Prozac...
...overkill is a professional hazard of Washington punditry, the argument goes, especially the twist-and-shout kind that Buchanan mastered on TV. To be heard above the noise on Crossfire, he has to talk tougher than he is. Buchanan's brother James says that's what explains the "Zulus" remark. "He was speaking off the top of his head. He didn't call them 'jungle bunnies' or something like that...
...when it was possible to share a van and chat. She would blurt out things like "For goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks," which worked in its way for Willie Sutton but is not wife-of-candidate speak. Airbrushed later, that remark contained the seeds of all that would come after, a desire to have things both ways--the need, shared by many of us of a certain age and upbringing, to do well but be seen as doing good...