"My experience is that since I left the White House, when a president of either party asks, you say 'yes'," Clinton said, riffing on the theme of his own residential limbo.
Granted, she's riffing on the same character each season (the singularly driven fading starlet), but the character's a doozie so it doesn't really matter.
"THE rich even get better air than the rest of us," proclaims Mother Jones's Kevin Drum, riffing off an American Prospect story on "the airlines' war on the 99%".
"Son, you may live your whole life and never get to see a governor in real life," the father told the young Huckaboy.Janet Huckabee, riffing on her husband's joke that he's ready to support the sports teams of the southern states that are going for him: "And next month we're gonna say Hook 'em horns.
SALON's Will Doig had a nice piece last week riffing off a common theme: why does it take so long and cost so much for America to complete infrastructure projects when China seems to complete them in mere months for a fraction of the cost On Dec. 31, the Chinese capital opened a new subway line and greatly expanded two others.
A popular device was the riff, a simple musical phrase reiterated by a band or by a section in counterpoint with other sections' riffing until, by sheer power of repetition, it became almost hypnotic.
Michele anchored it with looks riffing on the signature Gucci green-and-red webbing straps - spanning the waistband of a green lace dress to open, banded into a full-length skirt to close.
It's a tricky business, development often coming at the expense of core qualities: they're virtually unrecognisable as the band that made their game-changing debut, save perhaps for "All the Time", where Julian Casablancas' vocal slouches against tightly riffing guitars.
Possessing the guileless exuberance of a debut, it takes everything Turner is rightly famed for – impassioned guitar riffing married to arena friendly choruses – and turns the sound up.
The comedians so clearly enjoy riffing off each other that it's surprising that once again, Winterbottom was the driving force behind getting the sequel made, and that the combination of the words "Italy", "food" and "scenery", all to be filmed in June, didn't cause an immediate stampede.
The Spanish-language Saul will differ from Bob Odenkirk's original crooked lawyer not only in the hair department but in his day-to-day job, with Bueno hosting a late night talk show called Cuéntele a Saúl, riffing on a chat show model that is popular among Spanish-speaking audiences.
