Word: chap
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...Poor chap. He doesn't have much in the way of inner resources. Aside from the good reflexes that make him handy with a revolver, all he has to go on is some dubious advice from his moralizing father (Gene Hackman): put your trust in blood kin and in the law. What Earp sees in his brothers is impossible to say, since they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another...
...auctions. Last week, once again, Sotheby's and Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen...
Kevin Carter, Reuter: "I had my back to the scene, and a double shot rang out. Everyone headed for cover. I did the same. Straight after, I looked back and saw ((the soldier)) about to shoot the second chap. I shot two frames off. ((Later)) everyone was 'well done-ing' me. But I knew I had missed the shot. I made the mistake of running for cover instead of turning around, coldly analyzing the situation and shooting a great execution picture . . . Why didn't we help them? I personally appealed to a policeman, 'Take your prisoners and lock them...
Along with Grant's chivalry comes his unflappable cool. Even when he becomes a little ruffled, he doesn't show it, or he lets us know he's in control of the situation with a wink and a nod and a calm "well, old chap, I guess that's how it goes." So much for today's ideal of the sensitive '90s man who shows his feelings, but that doesn't bother me. In real life, that may be nice, but in day dreams, who needs it? He's manly but not overbearing macho but not sexist...
...roomate is aplying for a Rhodes scholarship. He has affected a British accent and will eat only kippers for breakfast. He addresses everyone as chap or my good fellow. I think he's full of shit and I'm ready to kill him. Is there a particularly British way of killing someone? Damn Yankee...