Word: affectionate
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Normally, institutional status--including friendships with Presidents and a (literal) warehouseful of humanitarian awards--is death for a comic. But he prevailed, mostly because of the reservoir of goodwill he had stored up by entertaining the American military on all its battlefields, in all its wars, for a half-century...
The best of Lewis will live as long as there is a Guatemala, a Sicily or a Burma to be drawn toward. But when he moved on, a certain way of seeing the world (with affection, wit and style), and a certain way of describing it (with unflappable wryness) moved...
I'm not alone in my affection. Kai Tak closed five years ago this month, but many still refer to it like a much-loved, weirdo uncle who's no longer around?one who will be forever remembered because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing...
With Kai Tak gone, many Hong Kong residents are understandably proud of its replacement, Chek Lap Kok (its drab proper name is the Hong Kong International Airport). It is undoubtedly a well-designed, efficient, world-class facility. Inside it is everything Kai Tak wasn't?spacious, airy and, with an...
The second lesson is an old standby: there is no such thing as something for nothing. Indeed, these free gifts—marvelous tokens of affection which are hurled at visitors so carelessly—are not just handed out willy-nilly, but rather are part of an exchange between...