Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Susan and Fenwick congratulate themselves on how well they are living and writing their novel. "My hat is off to us," Susan says. "Well done, us." She leads cheers for her husband's sensitivity: "That's some intuition you had there on that rampart." Fenwick returns the compliment: "What a teacher you are, Suse. No wonder your students fall in love with...
...plot of Blithe Spirit is these people chain-drinking and alternating from backhanded compliment to forehanded insult. One can only imagine the shock Coward must have experienced when he opened a playwriting book and learned that plays require forward plot movement and a climax. The plot he has devised to meet these needs has little to recommend it, neatly alternating as it does from either total predictibility to utter unbelievable with very little in between...
George M. Steinbrenner III, principal owner of the New York Yankees and probably the most hated man in sports today, has been raked over the coals by the press, the public and his players so many times that calling him "controversial" has become a compliment. The baseball campaign that opened this week should do little to improve Steinbrenner's p.r. Indeed, just last week he began his annual ritual of second-guessing his employees' judgment, publicly castigating current Yankee manager Bob Lemon for the squad's uninspiring spring training record...
...Kahn relates, Whitney's father's estate came to $178,893.655. But Jock affected a common touch. Kahn entitles one chapter "Nice if You Can't Afford Pewter," the remark Jock made in reply to a rich friend's compliment concerning the family silver. After he inherited a good part of his father's nine figures, he took a 565 a month job as a bank clerk. Commuting to work no his yacht every morning. Jock "scared the fish," a friend observed...
...value of Osmond's 19 years in the business. Charisma enables him to support the burden of the show, becoming a center of gravity around which the other actors can spin merrily. Maybe only Donny with his squeaky clean image could believably defend honor and country and still compliment his gal with, "French pastry ain't worth thirty cents compared to Apple...