Word: wisecrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anger of White House aides for his anti-medicare vote, since he was an usher at Kennedy's wedding, is Democratic conference secretary, yet repeatedly votes against Kennedy on key issues ("He hasn't stood up for Jack since the wedding," goes a White House wisecrack). Heavy pressure had been exerted to capture Senator Randolph's decisive vote, including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive $11 million in aid to dependent children. Thus...
...latest book, The Rising Gorge, Perelman's humor seems broader than in the past. He indulges frequently in the kind of wisecrack that makes the reader laugh out loud, instead of trying to evoke only nods and smiles. "And look at me today. How old a man would you say I was?" a health faddist asks Perelman...
...Caught Individual. An intense, brown-eyed woman with an ever-ready wisecrack, Painter Gikow insists that all her friends think of her as "a clown." Like most clowns, she is a well of sadness. Though she can capture the mood of a city with brilliance-a grey and misty Paris, a self-consciously French Brussels, a stifled Madrid with skull eyes for windows-her chief subject is the individual caught in a moment of pain, passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once...
Next to the statement "My five-year-old kid could do better than that," the most inevitable wisecrack about modern art is: "How do you know it's right side up?" Last week it turned out that the question is not as easy to answer as some of the cognoscenti like to think...
...heroes of the convention was the Catholic politician whom last year's convention had officially opposed for U.S. President. The messengers voted unanimously to send a telegram to President Kennedy expressing appreciation of his stand against aid to parochial schools and for the separation of church and state. Wisecrack of the day: "Jack Kennedy is making a pretty good Baptist President...