"I'm the Cavett from Nebraska," Mr. Cavett was quoted as saying, dressed in crisp talk-show attire and hoisting a glass in full-page ads that appeared in magazines and newspapers nationally.
In a world where gay men are out and proud and sexually belligerent, Crisp talks of his homosexuality as a curse and Aids as a fad.
Although the book's protagonist does not find his voice as a professional orator until midway through his harrowing journey in a racially divided America, in Oren Jacoby's faithful but lifeless theatrical adaptation the hero often seems to be presiding at an invisible podium, providing us with crisp talking points about the cruel truths of the black experience.
He provided no new information, but he sounded crisper talking about the economy and health care.
Please don't make me sound like Theresa May, will you?" The day Hillier and Bartley decided to launch their label, they went to the park with a notebook, sandwiches and crisps, and talked for four hours.
But Romney reawakened that mood by the confident and crisp way he talked about the mechanics of how jobs are created — through start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurship — and the catalytic power of markets.
Would I have done something, or would I have said, 'Oh, fuck,' and walked the other way?" That crisp "fuck," and talking about the Final Solution in the middle of a hushed gallery, tends to elicit looks.
In between swotting up on the hierarchy of the afterlife (the paradise of the gods, the realms of the demi-gods, men, animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings) I glance up at the passing snowy-haired gentlemen in crisp linen blazers talking of cricket, and they're starting to freak me out.
But as people milled around the crisp white loft, the talk was less about the art and more about whether Phillips, under its newly structured ownership, could survive in the costly and competitive world of auction houses.
Revving up the crowd of several thousand students who woke up early and waited hours outside on the state's first crisp autumn morning, Mr. Clinton talked about jobs, higher education and rising tuition costs.
