Word: wisecrack
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When does flirting become a real problem? Ask MeShelle Locke, 16, of Lacey, Wash. On Nov. 5, she was kidding around with a boy in English class at North Thurston High. He made some wisecrack to the teacher, and Locke looked at him, made a gun with her thumb and index finger, and said, "Bang." The boy, whom she often joked with, wondered if it was a threat. "No," MeShelle said lightly, "it's a promise...
...small one. After a promising first scene, she is largely banished to nursing a beer on the side of the stage. O'Connor gives her only enough dialogue about her intriguing romantic troubles to tantalize, and Nugent's prodigious talent is expressed almost entirely by the occasional wisecrack and by baleful glances smoldering with reproach directed toward her brother and sister...
While he and Mengers are now friends, Dunne attributes his downfall partly to a wisecrack he made about her and her husband. "I was blackballed after that," he remembers. "It was hilarious at the time." (He won't repeat it.) Mengers counters that she doesn't even know what the remark was. "How can you blackball a producer? It's ridiculous," she says. "You can't tell a star or director what to do. I wish I had had that kind of power. He uses it as a convenient excuse." Asked if people gloated over Dunne's fall, Mengers says...
...disjunction between the private and public Gores stymies his friends, frustrates his advisers and puzzles the press. To one degree or another, all politicians suffer from it, of course. For most of their waking hours they have learned to smother their natural impulses, lest the videotape capture some untoward wisecrack or a flirtatious glance. They know the landscape of American politics is littered with the carcasses of colleagues who tried, with disastrous results, to be a normal human being...
...note that Zoeller does not seem to understand that he did not merely make a bad joke, but that what he said was racist. Zoeller has not demonstrated any true remorse for his statements or even expressed an understanding of why he should not have attempted to make a wisecrack about fried chicken. His "apology" could have easily been prompted by his publicist or PGA executives, who wanted merely to stem a public relations fiasco...