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wim zik lee

  • r  in a fanciful manner

  • Buckley's "modest proposal" has a whimsically beguiling logic.
  • Now comes its third album, the whimsically titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
  • Democratic State Legislator Bernard Gladstone whimsically hit upon an idea to solve the fiscal crisis.
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  • All keyed up at Lincoln Center
    A quirky installation hit all the right notes at Lincoln Center yesterday. Eighty-eight whimsically decorated pianos that had been placed around the city the past few weeks were gathered in the center’s plaza for the day. The public event culminated with a two-minute evening performance of Bach’s “Prelude...
    June 17, 2013 - New York Post
Quotes

  • Vince Cannistraro in FOXNews
    Her career was arbitrarily and whimsically destroyed by a mean political trick,said Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of operations for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
  • Duncan Sheik in Reuters
    I call that the Bush doctrine,Sheik says with a laugh. "There are many of these kinds of funny themes, with these whimsically malevolent ghosts singing to Christopher."
  • Allen Weinstein in Capital Times
    I tried -- half-whimsically -- to ban the word 'backlog' in favor of discussing NARA's 'surplus' of documents, which sounds better but which remains today an intractable problem,Weinstein said in a recent speech.

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