Word: compliants
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...much given to argument. In most matters he was deferential to his elders and compliant with his peers. But where music was concerned, he liked getting his own way, and he knew with fearsome certainty what his own right way was. With music, he was fierce, always. With music, Elvis Aron Presley gave no quarter.In the eighth grade at Humes High in Memphis, Tennessee, 10 blocks from the public-assistance housing project where he lived with his mother and father, Presley pulled a C in music. He objected. As Peter Guralnick writes in his supple and altogether splendid new biography...
...blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
Evander Holyfield, the former heavyweight champion of the world, opted to retire on Tuesday after receiving the news from his doctors that he has a "non-compliant left ventricle" in his heart...
...cafe, is confronted by Hera's lawyer, who threatens litigation. The father of the gods turns the twit into vinaigrette dressing, pours the stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe breasts." Alas, this is Zeus' last good move. In no time he transforms himself into an American tourist, a Lutheran minister from Odense, Pennsylvania. Zeus lusts after the minister's bored and contemptuous wife, who, of course, is not having any, and never mind that her puffy...
...racist. The problem is not the epithet "niggers" in the opening song, which was not meanly meant in the first place and which in any case has been expunged in favor of the less incendiary "colored folks." Nor is it the historically accurate portrayal of blacks as mostly compliant, if resentful, field hands and laborers. The real problem is that the show follows the wrong story. It assumes that black people are inherently less interesting than whites...