Word: remarkable
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Newman's thesis would have been both powerful and persuasive had he stuck to the facts he uncovered in the documents. Instead he indulges in unnecessary speculation and theorizing. Every instance in which Kennedy whispers to a dovish Senator or makes a public remark about his desire to be extricated from Vietnam is taken as evidence of his secret intentions; the far more frequent examples of his invoking the domino theory and denouncing the idea of withdrawal are construed as public posturing, designed to deceive conservatives in order to get re-elected. In fact, it would be more logical...
...most interesting songs in the whole album is "To The Drink The Rainbow," which stands out because of the unusual pitch in which Tikaram sings and its unexpected, almost pop-like melody. The song itself is an outcome of a remark that a friend of Tikaram's made to her after both of them had finished watching the Disney movie Fantasia. Tikaram's friend mentioned that it would be great to write a song about drinking the rainbow. The imagery appealed to Tikaram, who already had considered an idea for song about someone who wanted something passionately and was willing...
...time for yesterday's opening day game at a price of $106 million, even had the endorsement of the greatest baseball fan who ever lived, the late commissioner of baseball and former Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti. Bart, when shown the plans for the proposed stadium, was heard to remark, "once you build this, everyone will want one like...
Somebody around here needs to chill out. Only days after offending moms with her sarcastic remark about baking cookies, Hillary Clinton muffed another softball question last week. Asked whether she might serve as Vice President in a Clinton Administration, she snapped, "I'm not interested in attending a lot of funerals." Not to worry...
Doesn't it trivialize the abhorrent evil that racism is when we use it as an imprecise label that, on even the most abstract logical continuum, leads someone to juxtapose a remark about communal use of a toaster with Hitler's gas chambers...