Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hair affectionately and then drinks the director's coffee. When he protests, Pavarotti says mildly that it is his coffee. The stage, the opera, the fans are his coffee too, and he knows it. He is in superb voice. Adler murmurs, "When Pavarotti sings like this, a compliment is not enough...
P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...
...flattered that the detective found me pretty. The police should realize that this kind of unsolicited comment is just what scares women. I felt first embarrassed and then insulted. Embarrassed because I hadn't wanted the man's opinion and insulted that he felt I would accept this compliment even though I didn't know either man and had been concerned about my safety when I called...
...less necessary than they were in the last century, when distances were greater and instructions could not be issued in each instance. Today there is a trend to instruct them in minute detail in even insignificant tactical decisions." On the other hand, he also pays diplomats the haughty compliment of arguing that it is up to them to take up some of the cerebral slack left by politicians. "Before World War I," he says, "world leaders were of the same intellectual milieu. Today the qualities necessary to become a national leader are not necessarily the same as those needed...
...Stream or the metastasis of a storm from Martinique. It may sometimes sound like a cheerful patter of mumbo jumbo and Celsius conversions, like a lounge comedian who did a semester at M.I.T., but on the whole, people learn what they want to know. The audience pays weathercasters the compliment of its attention, and advertisers pay the compliment of their dollars. The weather is always among the surest draws on local news...