Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cyprian's. Critic Cyril Connolly, who was his classmate, would later remember that Eric "felt bitterly that he was taken on at reduced fees because he might win the school a scholarship; he saw this as a humiliation, but it was really a compliment." The prickly youth did, in fact, earn a scholarship to Eton, winning praise for himself and his school. Yet his account of leaving St. Cyprian's hardly reflects a sense of triumph: "Failure, failure, failure-failure behind me, failure ahead of me-that was by far the deepest conviction that I carried away...
...family cars after uneasy readers learn that a seemingly harmless practice is an advertisement of insecurity and prestige by association. The news that better sorts wear only navy blue and gray should seal the musty fate of millions of brown suits, and dinner-party hostesses may never get another compliment after the pronouncement that upper classes find praise rude, "possessions there being of course beautiful, expensive and impressive, without question...
...entertainment, but it never descends into mere farce. Both lovers are forced to confront their own flaws: Peter is caught shoplifting, and Patricia battles her fear of sex. Director Paul Cox never lets the comic episodes detract from the seriousness of the pair's problems, but rather lets them compliment the underlying drama...
Amending Reagan's Amends If the members of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women looked past the ends of their liberated noses, they would realize that President Reagan gave them quite a compliment when he said, "If it wasn't for women, us men would still be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs" [Aug. 15]. I sincerely hope their attitude is not held by all of America's women...
Some career employees at OSHA pay Auchter a backhanded compliment, saying that without him the agency would have fared "substantially worse" under Reagan. A critic, Democratic Congressman David Obey, member of a subcommittee dealing with health, admits that OSHA has "shown surface movement in the past three months," but contends that it is only because "Auchter doesn't want to wind up in the same boat...