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I meant that the Journal was far too offhand about the non-digital factors that may have set him off.
An offhand comment made by Hyde during the Senate trial--that he would sacrifice his seat in defense of the unborn, the nation's security, and the Constitution--sums up the best Republican agenda for 2000.
Although we all plan to be civilized about it, if my father makes some offhand comment about the situation, it will be awkward to say the least.
(The quote is from David Whitman's The Optimism Gap .) Earlier this month, Bennett spoke in a similar vein when he defended an offhand swipe at Robert Bork's sourpuss tome Slouching Towards Gomorrah that George W. Bush made in a recent speech on education.
If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.