Word: wisecracker
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...packs of beer, snapping pictures and introducing White House aides to the chairman of a Chinese beer company, even dropping by the offices of Clinton, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. Suettinger warned last year that further contact with Chung might prove embarrassing but prefaced his comments with the wisecrack that to the degree that giving Chung existing photos of him with Clinton "motivates him to continue contributing to the D.N.C., who am I to complain...
Speak? Well, not exactly. His people howl and mumble, wisecrack and menace, muse and abuse--a lot of the time obscenely. But never idly. The language of Clockers is finally transformative, turning what might have been no more than a slice of mean-streets realism into a sort of rap opera, in which pained recitative prepares the way for anguished (and curiously moving) arias...
...Steele's wisecrack raises a serious question. Might some of these microorganisms be dangerous -- an ancient Andromeda Strain like the killer germ in another Crichton novel? Absolutely not, argues Steele, who stresses that Ambergene is very selective in the microbes it chooses to cultivate, carefully checking their genetic and ecological profiles to exclude possible pathogens. In addition, she notes, most of Ambergene's microbes are related to modern-day organisms of known habits. Still, experience with rabbits in Australia and kudzu in the Southern U.S. shows that seemingly innocuous plants and animals can misbehave when taken out of their original...
...occasion. He becomes involved reluctantly and out of necessity, but he never gives up. He jumps off boats, leaps onto subway train roofs, rides steel cables and faces down machine-guns. Throughout the movie, he is beaten, shot-at and half-drowned; but he always comes back with a wisecrack...
...story, I tried to illustrate the utter badness of the day for Harvard. I mentioned the gridders' anemic offensive performance and its lame defensive effort. I then tried to square off the paragraph with this wisecrack: "Even the band's performance was more cryptic than usual...