Word: remarkably
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Every once in a while Mort pulls one out that is moderately amusing. "Hail to the Chief, President Bill Clinton. Long may he waiver." But the points he scores are withdrawn when he attributes to his wife the apocryphal remark about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican Convention sounding better in the original German. It's funny--too bad we've heard it before. Meanwhile, that elderly audience keeps on laughing...
...courtroom where Simpson's trial will take place is wired like a Hollywood sound studio, and whispered sound carries with the speed and spark of the Santa Ana winds which warm and occasionally burn this sprawling metropolis. Shapiro, who made the remark after a Los Angeles County prosecutor made a statement with which he did not agree, later apologized...
...epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing a mother and a wife arouses "uproarious laughter...
Chatfield pointed to a 1955 incident when a Black teenager "was whistling or maybe made a veiled sexual remark at a white woman...
...controversy generated by this remark was not the usual one, based on the fact that Hispanics often consider themselves white. Rather, people were annoyed that the President had referred to us all as part of one category...