Word: compliment
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...know,” his ‘Bolivian’ comment makes the list. In 1987, Tyson was idolized by youths across America after Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out came out for Nintendo. If you beat Tyson in Punch-Out, he’d compliment you. Now if you beat Tyson, he’d either fade into Bolivian, chew your ear off or possibly “rip out your stomach and eat [your] children...
...business. A former British cabinet minister in the pro-American Conservative Party leaned over toward a TIME correspondent at lunch recently to say he considered Bush "terrifying," "ignorant," "a prisoner of the religious right" and "like a child running around with a grenade with the pin pulled out." The compliment is returned; it's no secret across the Atlantic that Bush's people frequently call their allies "Euro-wimps...
...addition to Fields, the Terriers boast a solid compliment of skilled forwards, including junior Frantisek Skladany and senior John Sabo. BU’s blue line is anchored by sophomore Ryan Whitney, who rivals Harvard sophomore Noah Welch for the title of best defenseman in town...
...down on the prose and given us more to look at. His highly detailed costumes and backgrounds have the sumptuousness of a Merchant and Ivory movie. This book in particular, with its lovely views of the French seaside, provides much to please the eye. The pictures perfectly compliment the dreamy, poetic text. A typical line by the narrator sums up the pleasures of this book: "I was attempting to find beauty where I'd never thought it might be, in the most ordinary of things, in the profundity of 'still lives...
...professional comedy writer to observe the Mozians, and she quickly concludes, "He is as close to a living sitcom character as I have ever met in my life." If My Life Is a Sitcom performs no other public service, it will be to demonstrate that that is not a compliment...