Word: remarkable
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...seeing a high enough quotient. I enquire his views about the light panto on stage. "It's terrible," he opines. "I mean, I could get James Woods to wear a dress!" Since, on the face of it, this runs contrary to his long-established reputation, I leave the remark dangling. James Woods held a different perspective. "How did they get you to do it?" I asked him. "Easy," he explains. "They phoned up and asked. I'll do anything for a laugh." I didn't have the courage to ask James if he would have put on a dress...
...that the press flacks tried to explain the remark as a reference to Bush's concerns about any future deals with North Korea, even though he used the present tense. Hence the "that's how the President speaks" remark, implying that he characteristically uses the present tense to refer to the future - a formula in which "I'll do it now" presumably means the same thing as "It can wait till tomorrow...
...Stone today downplayed his remark to the Globe. Asked yesterday by Crimson reporters about the comment, Stone replied, "Did I say that...
...Besigye," he says. "It's good to have these kinds of people. They bring up issues that should be addressed. The election has been a good cleansing process." And then Museveni proceeds to get a few things off his chest. "Besigye is suffering from AIDS," he says, a remark he has delivered a number of times on the stump. "And Winnie is just a nasty lady." Besigye refuses to address that particular accusation. (He and Byanyima have a son Anselm, born two months after they married.) As for Byanyima, last year she floated the idea of running for President herself...
...Water buffalo??!! Too bad Byrd did not have the wit to remark on television that "my old mom used to tell me, son, there are white water buffalo and black water buffalo." That would have left a national television audience in a cloud of harmless mystification...