Word: remarked
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Andre Agassi showed a bit of his pre-Brooke Shields form at the quarterfinals of the German Open in Hamburg. Having lost to Spain's Sergi Bruguera on the court where Monica Seles was stabbed in April 1993, the top-seeded player made an unprintable remark to a spectator who complained about the quality of the match. "Are you going to get a knife and chase me now?" Agassi then asked. He was fined...
...approached by American Ballet Theatre some 20 years ago, but because he was ballet master at the rival City Ballet, he first went to its guru, George Balanchine, for his approval. "Fine," he said, "because our boys don't fight." The idea never came to fruition, but Balanchine's remark was telling. Ballet dancers are trained to do what they are told. Their acting is mostly pantomime. Here they faced something new. "Broadway dancers are expected to take risks," says Robert LaFosse, who stars in West Side Story Suite, as he did in Jerome Robbins' Broadway. "These ballet kids...
...preceded by a collaborative mural depicting the deeply divided city of Los Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor: "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky!/ I was miserable and aching/ at the way the news kept breaking/ I was searching for a reasonable reason for my smile/ I was finding what...
...witness stand that heinitially believed that O.J. Simpson had "an airtight alibi."In the ensuing commotion, the jury was hustled out of the courtroom while prosecutors frantically attempted damage control. WhenSimpson attorney Johnnie Cochran, addressing Judge Ito, called Prosecutor Marcia Clark "hysterical,"Clark shot back that his "sexist" remark was unacceptable. Simpson chuckled, watching this exchange. Clark insisted that Yamauchi's comment was not based on any knowledge of O.J.'s initial statement to the police, and should be disregarded. Ito did not immediately rule on whether he would order the jury to disregard Yamauchi's statement.O.J. Simpson
...informal telephone interview with a local reporter, I made an offhand remark...Of course, I did not expect to be baken literally...