Indirect quotations do not guarantee exact
wording, but they still command the authority quoted. Such constructions
as says that, without quotation marks, indicate the looseness of
a quotation.
Irving Clayton, a Canadian poet, observed that
his countrymen are right to consider America hell; but only because
Canada itself is limbo.
James Harbour, an American productivity expert,
argues that by finding ways of stripping out costs without affecting
quality or reliability, the Japanese could reduce costs by 40-50%.
The first shot was lobbed back in 1989, when Rushdie,
four months into his Ayatollah-decreed death sentence, wrote an
eviscerating review of le Carré's thriller "The Russia
House"; le Carré responded by declaring that
Rushdie had brought the "fatwa" upon himself and criticized
him for going ahead with the paperback edition of "The Satanic
Verses," suggesting that Rushdie put a higher value on cash
than on the lives of his publisher's employees.
She once told an interviewer that her Olive Oyl voice
was an attempt to imitate the actress ZaSu Pitts.
