Though he sometimes comes across with an almost studied seriousness, Mr. Wong said he enjoys a lighter side of himself that finds expression with Ms. Hsieh.
While the words "light" and "Dick Cheney" do not ordinarily exist in the same sentence, the vice president did use the question-and-answer session to reveal a lighter side of himself, all the while throwing in a few characteristic zingers.
But as time passed, Mr. Rather came to make light of the incident himself, even singing along with R.E.M. during a performance of their song "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" on David Letterman's show two years ago.
His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".
** His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".
David Scher, always light of touch, has rendered himself all but invisible with a series of hard-to-spot everyday objects: a dog collar on a lamppost, a birdcage in a tree, a fly swatter in geraniums.
In light of this objection, Moore himself eventually abandoned this way of characterizing natural properties (Moore 1942: 581 582).
"Brandt Snedeker has a little bit of light between himself and the field but the rest of us will keep on plugging".
As Gwyn Topham reports, Boris himself made light of difficulties.
