"Every champion up here, I respect totally," he asserts, looking at the other nine contenders.
His models strode out against an inferno; this was, he later asserted, a look he saw as completely wearable.
Rather than argue with him on details, one finance minister simply asserted that looking like an idiot was standard procedure for ministers.
But as Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia, told me, one way to think about the result is to go back to Apple's first big lawsuit: when, in the late nineteen-eighties, the company asserted that the "look and feel" of its products had been ripped off by Microsoft Windows.
But Brook asserts that, looked at with accuracy and insight, Beckett's work has (or should have) exactly the opposite effect.
"Under Donald Trump," he asserts, "America looks like a dangerous nation".
Ayn Rand, in case you don't know, was primarily a novelist, who argued for "Objectivism," a philosophy that asserts that looking out for number one is the best thing a human being can possibly do, and that everyone else can be damned.
Ayn Rand was primarily a novelist, who – through her writing – argued for "the virtue of selfishness", a philosophy that asserts that looking out for number one is the best thing a human being can possibly do, and that everyone else can be damned.
Senator Kerry for the most part ignored the President, until Mr. Bush asserted that Mr. Kerry looked as though he had "been weaned on a cornichon". At this point, the Senator had apparently had enough.
Linda Stasi of the New York Post asserted that Spears looked "slim trim and gorgeous" and that "her acting was nothing short of adorably believable".
