Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Albrecht Durer, Nuremberg's best-known artist, saw a collection of pre- Columbian gold that had been brought from the New World in the early 16th century, he marveled at "the subtle Ingenia of men in foreign lands." This show gives Americans a good opportunity to return the compliment. Nuremberg was one of the great entrepreneurial centers of the late Middle Ages: innovative in production, much concerned with quality control, widely specialized, adventurous, rich and proud. Its burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call...
...Hayes Awards. The actor kissed her on both cheeks, and she told him through a translator how grateful she was for the work he had put into the movie. Bonner wondered if Actress Glenda Jackson, who played her in the film, was there. Told no, Bonner offered the ultimate compliment. "I like her very much," said Bonner. "She's a thousand times better than...
Martha Friend of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center opened the rally, saying, "We found ourselves living in a culture that condones and in fact, promotes it [rape]. Every time a whistle or jeer is defended as a compliment, our rape culture is enforced...
...awkward. Meeting with the paper's sports staff shortly after taking over, Janeway said that while he was not a fan in sports-mad Boston, his wife followed the city's teams and she thought the paper's coverage of them superb. The sportswriters were ruffled by the backhanded compliment. Though Janeway assiduously courted colleagues over lunch, he remained somewhat aloof back in his corner office...
...factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with my leader," she blurted. "In love!" She then paid Gorbachev, the object of her affection, the ultimate compliment. During the 5 1/2-hour speech that he delivered to the congress two weeks ago, she recalled, "I wasn't even sleepy." It is on that kind of wakeful worker that Gorbachev is pinning his hopes...