Word: wisecracker
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...White House. Like Mack McLarty, Panetta appears unfailingly polite. Like Clinton, he comes from modest roots, and straddles his party's left and moderate flanks. His self-deprecating humor is disarming: top aides say he cannot go more than a few minutes in meetings without making some self-critical wisecrack. Reporters lost track of the number of times Panetta, who turned 56 last Tuesday, observed -- with a roll of his eyes -- how his new job was "one hell of a birthday present...
WILLIAM BENNETT, Secretary of Education under Reagan. Wisecrack: To Secret Service agents after speech (as reported by Donald Hodel, below): You mean I don't get to be President...
...After a wisecrack by Dave, the attendant became angry and he would not give them the key to their rooms...
...wisecrack that made the rounds in the 1980s characterized the Soviet Union as "Upper Volta with missiles." Now, as then, the economy is not that bad off. But Boris Yeltsin's Russia last week seemed closer to being a Weimar Republic with missiles. Images of violent communist-fascist mobs dedicated to strangling Russian democracy in its cradle no doubt helped galvanize international support for Yeltsin, a figure whose impulses are sometimes seen as suspect. The ambiguity of the crisis was reinforced by the televised spectacle of tank commanders loyal to Yeltsin shelling the Parliament Building...
Carol is, of course, deliciously undeterrable -- sneaking into the widower's apartment looking for clues, shadowing him on the street, eventually even catching sight of his supposed victim (she suddenly materializes on a passing bus). Her husband flaps along, squawking wisecrack warnings, but in time she persuades him, as well as a couple of bystanders (Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston), that something fishy (and much more convoluted than a simple murder) is going on. In a grand farcical sequence, all these characters manically manipulate tape recorders carrying provocative pre-recorded messages designed to elicit a confession from Paul...