Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laugh when people compare me to a Billy Smith-type goaltender," Blair says of the New York Islanders' slash-happy netminder. "I take it as a compliment, because I figure I'm more of a Billy Smith-type goaltender because I play well in the playoffs...
...says to you, 'You're beautiful, you should be in Playboy or Cosmopolitan or Vogue,' that's a compliment, isn't it? Whereas, 'You should be in Hustler,' that's degrading. Isn't that right, girls?" Chan asked. I knew that the right thing to say would be: 'Oh, yes! I can't wait to be in Playboy!" But I couldn't get over the feeling of playing a part, so I punted with "I guess that's part...
...small, elegant hotels in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood: "At night, downtown Los Angeles is dead and Beverly Hills is boring. West Hollywood is the place for those who are interested in night life and in meeting different kinds of people, creative people." He adds, in the ultimate compliment for one educated and accented in Paris, "It's the Left Bank of Beverly Hills...
...when the crowd began to chant, "The coach is bald" at the end of the Crimson victory, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary was quick to return the compliment, nodding, grinning, and joining in the rhythymic hand-clapping...
Arafat was right, in a way, about the cowboy logic. But his understanding of the word cowboy and an American's understanding of it are entirely different. Arafat meant the word as an indictment. Americans might take it as a compliment. They would think, "Damn straight we used cowboy logic, if that's ( what you want to call it." They might be delighted that they had been able to do a "cowboy" thing. It proved that the old American cliche can reappear now and then. It was not as if the U.S. had turned Rambo loose upon the Palestine Liberation...