Word: offhandedly
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...profile at Harvard. Since she rarely speaks about the firm unprovoked, few people even know to be impressed. Blockmate Juliet R. Girard ’07 remembers learning of the full weight of Poilâne’s responsibilities. “When I mentioned her last name offhand to this French guy in my lab, he was just like: ‘Wait—that Poilâne?’” But her close friends understand this reticence. “You don’t want people treating you differently just because...
...Mostly, the play provides an excuse for overcooked gag lines about how Hollywood agents can't be trusted, how artists are corrupted by the philistines who make movies, how people in California order Cobb salads with everything on the side. Some of the lines trade on offhand buzzwords: "tears finding their lazy way down his derm-abrased face." Other just slap us hard in the kisser: "A writer with final cut - I'd rather give firearms to small children." Compared to a really incisive Hollywood satire like HBO's Entourage, this is pretty lame stuff...
...Grey, a former South Asia correspondent and investigative reporter with the Sunday Times of London, says his interest in the CIA program was sparked in December 2001 by an offhand remark made to him by Porter Goss, the former CIA Director who at the time was still a Republican Congressman from Florida and head of the House intelligence committee. In an interview with Goss in his office on Capitol Hill, Grey asked if President Clinton should have arranged the secret kidnapping of Osama bin Laden. Goss replied that such a program in fact existed. "It's called a rendition...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy lost a squeaker of an election last week to Romano Prodi. The defeat ends the conservative Berlusconi's five-year rule--Italy's longest since World War II--which was peppered with his offhand, sometimes offensive remarks. Here's a look at some of the most memorable...
...collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversize nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes had fur on the platform heels. The designer said the collection had been inspired by street fashion, Japanese samurai and medieval soldiers. Backstage after the show she called the mood "angry and savage." Then she smiled. Prada knows that...