Word: cherish
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...home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid acceptance of their limits. Even the less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening is an observation that in a time of national obsession with health, "I worry that we don't have a metaphysical-fitness program." For that lack, Tomlin's show is at least a partial cure. It is a buoying search for signs of intelligent life...
...advisers," with the same pay and perks as before, including access to housing, cars and political documents. According to some reports, they may also have received promises that their sons or daughters would receive future party appointments. Moreover, even as veteran military leaders stepped down, the government announced a "Cherish the Army" campaign in an attempt to soften the blow to the armed forces...
...Barthes considers it "murder by language." Even Ann Landers speaks out in opposition. But Patricia Meyer Spacks disagrees. Gossip, she believes, is good for you: "It may manifest malice, it may promulgate fiction in the guise of fact, but its participants do not value it for such reasons; they cherish, rather, the opportunity it affords for 'emotional speculation...
...posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make it a movie to cherish...
Reputation, of all human possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages...