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...something." Arias started swimming at a local pool and limiting what she ate. At first, she didn't tell anyone what she was doing because she feared she might fail again. But after the first month, when she lost 25 lbs., people at work started to notice and compliment her efforts. After two years, she had lost more than 100 lbs.--and she has kept the weight...
...about Moore for viewers of the Independent Film Channel back in the States, which was broadcasting the show: ?In case he shouldn?t win, if anyone is watching this from the United States, please don?t vote Bush.? Then Tim Roth, announcing another prize, declared, ?I?d like to compliment the young man for his comments, which I thought were extraordinarily brave...
...compliment such wardrobes, grooming—once the exclusive domain of women donning powders and lipstick—is working its way into masculine routines. Gino Ruotolo has been primping Square residents in his small Holyoke street salon, Gino’s, for 28 years. “When I first started out, I’d say that about two percent of our customers were male, but we’ve seen a real transformation in the past seven or eight years. Now I’d say we have about 25- 28 percent,” he says...
...perfectly complemented by a suitably charming on camera presence. Though the plot could have been written during a middle school sleepover, 13 is cute for cute’s sake—cuter than the recent teenage chick flick Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and a nice urban compliment to the farm-town setting of The Prince and Me. If nothing else, the pleasantly sappy coupling of Garner and Ruffalo is just enough to make the zits start to heal, the teeth straighten, the bra fill-out and the baby fat and other adolescent anxieties melt away...
...rare occasion when the adjective “reptilian” can be meant as the deepest of compliment. Therefore, we must accord Ripley’s Game the proper admiration for allowing John Malkovich—the most sophisticated yet reptilian actor of our time—to portray Tom Ripley—the most sophisticated yet reptilian character of literature—and create the most reptilian sophisticate in cinema history...