— and is filled with a combination of clever quips, catchphrases and campy drama.
The clever quips — "America, I come in peace" — seem quaint now, seven months later, amid another gloomy December in New Jersey.
Nonetheless, some strategists say that Mr. Cain has succeeded at being the everyman candidate, much like Mike Huckabee, whose clever quips helped him win the Iowa caucuses four years ago.
He's not paid to be an entertainer, and making clever quips isn't part of the job description — Jerry Glanville, you might remember, was a lot funnier when he was winning.
There, in the 1920's and 1930's, the nimbler-than-thou set traded remarkably clever quips and wisecracks while downing remarkably clever quantities of contraband from ingeniously hidden silver flasks during deepest Prohibition.
What he didn't tell me is that Charley and his Maori wife, Janet, would invite me into their house first and offer me coffee, biscuits and clever quips about the small-town life they have led since moving to Ohura from the city of Hamilton, the North Island's third-biggest.
This is what lives on, after the talk show appearances and clever quips are forgotten.
Plus, I've been nervous that I would stop gaining knowledge, would lose my momentum for professional growth, would miss our clever quips.
Conversations on Facebook and Twitter are often little more than a string of short, clever quips and jaunty banter heavily sprinkled with exclamation points.
