Mr. Obama delivered his remarks standing next to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
While some of the names have loving remarks written next to them, others have been vandalized with offensive language.
Our man remarked to the lady next to him that he couldn't understand why people as well-to-do as his host and hostess didn't spend their summers elsewhere.
In a telling roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Oprah Winfrey once remarked that it was next to impossible to market books with characters that had unusual names or backgrounds to the American public.
And when Paul, the Australian sitting next to me, remarks, casually, that Air Koryo is considered unairworthy by the EU, it becomes, perhaps, just a little too exciting.
The agents, who the woman next to me remarked "looked awfully young," killed on the "Harry Potter" questions.
Or as Ilke, 30, an aerospace engineer standing next to me remarked — before we were scattered by tear gas — "They are trying to make rules about religion and to force them on everyone.
A man standing next to me remarked to his companion that the picture reminded him of Max Beckmann, the German Expressionist, who, I recalled, lived in St . Louisand whose retrospective is at Tate Modern now.
By R. MacDonald and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 18 , 1951P. 25 A winer-and-diner at the Little Club the other night tells us that a very pretty girl at the table next to his remarked to the man with her "I saw the cathedrals of England and the chateaux of France, and I said to myself, 'So what?' whereupon her escort transfixed with admiration, leaned over and gave her a big kiss.
