The operator said she could not take his tip-off then and there, and that it would be better if he called back.
Clyde Haberman could not have put it better when he called the Board of Education "command central for the education bureaucracy" (NYC column, Feb. 28).
Noting that to "research gun violence prevention, we need better data," he called for the creation of a national database devoted to firearms and violent crime.
"You've got the better skillet," he called to me as he entered the kitchen area.
It would be even better if he called it an Office of Metropolitan Policy, but I'm not going to quibble about semantics.
"You've seen that with the Liberal Democratic Party, today has been better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today," he called out.
Mr. Bharara said he yearned for something better than what he called this "blunt prosecutor's tool".
He got his first DJing job aged 16 at a Times Square club called Better Days, although he called the three years he spent playing at the Continental Baths his "education".
Ms. Streep plays the title character with a perfectionism that "has rarely seemed so apt," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that Stanley Tucci, as Nigel, Miranda's right-hand man-slave, "has never been better".' And he called Emily Blunt's character, another minion, "a minor tour de force of smiling hostility".
More than that, said Ali Abdu, Eritrea's information minister, if Ms. Frazer was trying to make "Eritrea kneel down in front of her," she had better learn what he called a basic Eritrean fact.
There was a time not too long ago when, if you met a prospective paramour, the only way to get to know him better was if he called you or if mutual friends curated another "chance" encounter.
