Zingers

Don't get me wrong, the language has the salty tang of real people living on the edge and the script is full of laugh-out-loud zingers that you'll enjoy heartily. But what I find even more distressing on a second viewing is the rambling...

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...some of the most darkly hilarious moments to grace the screen in years. Clooney's crack comic timing makes the most of Ryan's acrid zingers as he savors a life without the vaguest threat of commitment. Trouble arises when his boss hires a...

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...seem more human. Personally, I would be more likely to trust someone who laughs uproariously and makes some well-placed zingers when it comes to the more ridiculous proposals." Thomas Corwin of Ohio - who served as a governor, a U.S....

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...they will attack the wrong country." 1. How to create Manufacturing Jobs. In an attempt to be witty, you mixed up your one-line zingers! My diplomatic policy toward them would be swift, cruel and with extreme prejudice and that's...

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...burden was to fill that monolith day after day. He did it with a singular mix of creativity and discipline. He constantly cooked up zingers and word games, verbal riffs and poetic images, yet he went about his business with the meticulousness...

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...the past, with the most memorable coming from Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller. We're at the point now, though, where the zingers aren't so much fresh and new as they are refinements of past hits. In 2004, the luncheon took place...

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...on college campuses, for tech corporations or at museums and science conventions. There, he geeks up the routines with technical zingers that can reduce a stoic audience to tears - which isn't easy, when you're facing rows of serious-minded...

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...eating junk food. Then she lost 30 pounds, fixed her hair, put on a pair of hot-teacher glasses, and made her name throwing lightning-bolt zingers on "Weekend Update. " Speeding through the comedy galaxy, she wrote the hit Mean Girls and...

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...heart as a young bride, a committed social activist, visual artist and family caretaker. Gaines makes the most of Wilder's comedic zingers and transports the aud to another world with her soul-stirring renditions of traditional spirituals,...

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