Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After mentioning that she was Jewish, she was asked why she converted to Judaism. She gave a bold retort and asked, "What makes you think I converted?" With a knowing smile, she said her mother was Jewish and that she is not a follower of any one religion but practices humanism. While Whoopi analyzes and attacks the Catholic Church in her writing, on stage she professed one of the rules she tries to live by: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...defense of the University rose President Neil L. Rudenstine, who, in a deft maneuver, vacillated between dodging responsibility and pleading ignorance. Meanwhile, the rest of the Faculty resorted to that timeless rhetorical technique, "gasping and hissing"--a method of retort that gained its popularity during meetings of the Smurf cartoon village...
...moments Wednesday seemed to capture perfectly the persistent understanding gap between economists and politicians. One was when a member asked an exasperated Rubin if IMF funding was an issue that Congress should take home to their constituents and take up again in 1999. The other was Greenspan?s retort to Leach?s gibe about his comprehensibility: "If I spoke English," Greenspan said, smiling, "you wouldn?t understand...
...center of the narrative. Mitchell has the largest role, and she nicely manages the role of the seeming innocent drawn so far into this circle of sirens that her presence creates tensions felt by the whole group. Clarkson impresses mightily as Greta, whose mordant wit is an obvious retort to a life and a lover she feels have abandoned...
...when I responded in turn to their New-York-bagel-elitism with the retort that I once ate an excellent bagel in Toledo, Ohio--one which would have been at home in a New York City bagelry--they remained firm: "They must get the water pumped in special," they said...