Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marie Antoinette Award for Noblesse Oblige. Dan Quayle's remark that "those people" at a food bank in Indiana were "glad" that "I took time out of my schedule to go down and talk" with them...
...bites with his attack on Quayle: "You're no Jack Kennedy." But these angry words triggered an audible intake of breath in front of the Heitger TV set. "That's really low," said Betty. Her neighbors agreed. Bush stalwarts like Mike McManus and Ray Heitger saw in Bentsen's remark evidence that the Texas Senator too was a flawed candidate. This allowed them to reconcile their discomfort over Quayle with their backing of Bush...
...Managua, Wright's remark enraged the Nicaraguan opposition, which claimed that Ortega would use the controversy to justify political repression. Said an unrepentant Wright: "The CIA was created to gather intelligence, not to make policy. That is the role of Congress...
...this ink can be blamed on Pete Rose or balk rules. Giamatti is too articulate for his own anonymity. Sportswriters have learned that Bart, as everyone calls him, will eventually deliver the colorful remark. It may take some hounding. He may try to put them off with a "Can't talk to you now, guy" or a "Later, pal," displaying the side-of-the-mouth brusqueness he adopts when feeling besieged. Never mind. Sooner or later, usually sooner, he will relent. Prod him with questions. Why has he been critical of those huge screens towering behind outfield fences...
...English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. Odder still, he was at age 40 the youngest person in 200 years to be installed as the president of Yale University, in 1978. (Around the time of his selection, Giamatti made a wry, self-deprecatory remark that seems, in retrospect, premonitory, if slightly off base: "The only thing I ever want to be president of is the American League...