Word: wisecracker
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...advisers sum up the second and final TV confrontation between the President and Democratic Challenger Walter Mondale at the start of last week. Reagan indeed is treating the debate as a settled issue; his aides think he put to rest doubts about his age and competence with a wisecrack about Mondale's "youth and inexperience," and with that removed the last real barrier to his reelection. But Mondale nonetheless is hammering away at the theme that Reagan "cannot make a statement about a major issue without making a major mistake...
...early '60s, she began writing columns: "I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair." This archetypal wisecrack is, after her heartfelt growl about the overmeticulous neighbor who waxes her driveway, probably the best known of Bombeck's nifties. It has a dead-on, chisel-it-on-my-tombstone truthfulness. But for the moment, no one paid much attention to her capering. She did a column a week, at $3 each, for the Kettering-Oakwood Times, a suburban weekly. Her desk was a piece of plywood supported...
Like former Interior Secretary James Watt, his friend and onetime boss, Arnett can seldom resist a wisecrack. Nor is the strapping (6 ft. 5 in.), gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a visitor around his office, he sported a tie decorated with kangaroos and held in place by an elephant clasp. His 260-lb. frame was partially cloaked by a casual cardigan sweater adorned with a pin that said DUCKS. Says Arnett: "I like the camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping...
...furnishing names to the House Un-American Activities Committee when it came to investigate the film industry. As evidence of his political rightness, Odets showed the Congressmen a pan of Awake and Sing! in the New Masses: "A situation is created out of nothing just to get across a wisecrack." That is not an entirely unfair appraisal. Odets' single authentic tragedy was the one that occurred offstage. -By Stefan Kanfer
...enemies. Or, better yet, enhances one's self by diminishing one's enemies. Mayor: An Autobiography reads like the morning after a night of the long knives - smart, ebullient, witty, vengeful and damaging. Who can ever again think of Bella Abzug without remembering Koch's cruel wisecrack? Asked why Abzug lost her home district in a 1972 congressional primary, he replied, "Her neighbors know...