We run this week's contest — which points to some of the actor's more memorable recent quotations — without any comment on the larger question of whether it's sensible or morally sound to give this man such general attention.
In "The Country Girls Trilogy," after Kate talked to a cosmetics salesman, Baba asked, "Feck any samples?" and when I looked "feck" up in the Oxford English Dictionary (as a verb, it means "steal"), I had the uncanny experience of finding Baba's question there, as the most recent illustrative quotation.
Two issues have been particularly important in the recent discussions: Mixed Quotation and the alleged ambiguity of quotations.
Anecdotes, quotations, recent debates, or timely news stories can also be compelling ways to begin a research paper.
He argues that the use of sixteen-millimetre film or low-fi video, lending a movie a grainy or striated texture that distinguishes itself from the sharp-edged clarity of digital video, extinguishes a filmmaker's original inspirations in nostalgia: One can now watch John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence just as one watches Joe Swanberg's recent Happy Christmas: in quotation marks.
On Tuesday, just before "The View" began here, Mr. McCain showed a spot featuring Mr. Biden's quotation from a recent fund-raiser, "Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama".
Dave: Just this great quotation from the recent Agassi autobiography: "It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life.
Question-exclamation combos — to which I'll give the acronym QEC — have made their way into print in recent decades, mostly in rendered quotations in journalism and fiction.
Mr. Hirschorn said in a recent interview that although the quotations were accurate, they came from an interview conducted about five months earlier for an article with a different premise: on Internet companies that were working.
Many of those at the rally today carried posters with pictures of Mr. Verniero and quotations from his recent Senate testimony, in which he said that he could not recall many of the documents on racial profiling shown to him when he was attorney general.
