Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remark regarding those on a vegetarian diet elicited nervous chuckles...
...Crimson applied plenty of pressure on the Tigers, dominating most of the game, but it couldn't score. That loss knocked it from Ivy contention and prompted Locker afterwards to remark that the team now played for pride...
...Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West; students scatter rather than get caught in the laser beam of her cool rage. In history class she makes one think of Harry Potter's Professor Snape, so regal is her malevolence, so acute her gift for the demeaning remark that cuts through the skin of her best students and into their fragile egos. Her intellect has veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying to leave, and by having to teach idiots who may get a ticket...
...then, Kennedy's dealings with the media had become deeply ritualized. "He was very nice to our reporters, extremely nice," says National Enquirer editor Steve Coz. "He always had a witty remark. We put in an offer that we'd love to do an at-home with him and Carolyn. His assistant called us back and said he told her to tell us he couldn't do the at-home that night because he and Carolyn were off to the fights...
...personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes for an autobiography, that "I think I hate the little midget"--a remark notable not just for its animosity but also for its redundancy (a former English professor of Eisner's called the CEO to make just that point). The gibe, says a Katzenberg colleague, "was so painful that no money could make him feel better. What Jeffrey always wanted and never...