Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compliment such a carefully conceived and intricate plot are several monotonous and lukewarm acting performances by Dean, Jason Lee, who plays an idiot billionaire, and Hope Davis, Dr. Mumford's patient turned love affair. The experience of watching the acting in Mumford can perhaps be compared to the first few days of the college experience. At the beginning, no one really stands out, and at the end, you can't remember anyone's name...
...England, 'wicked' has resurfaced as an intensifier or term of approval, which for someone my age is really weird," she said. "'Sketchy,' when applied to a new acquaintance, is definitely not a compliment--though what it is is not clear to me. My students tell me on the DL, or 'down low,' that I'm really random. Whatever...
...operas that are broadcast do tend to be a little more well known than the ones we broadcast," he said, adding that the Saturday program would "certainly compliment" the existing Sunday opera broadcasts...
Racial optimists might look to cable, where channels like Lifetime, MTV, HBO and Showtime offer multiracial fare--while siphoning away broadcast's audience and acclaim. Indeed, Mfume's jeremiad may be an ironic compliment: at least someone still considers the ratings-troubled networks worth fighting over. Is it any wonder the nightly lineup looks like a divided school district, pre-Brown v. Board of Education? If you were running a network today, you too would wish it were 1954 again...
...Sunday ? three years after having been diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently undergoing four rounds of chemotherapy and two operations ? 27-year-old Texan Lance Armstrong rode triumphantly into Paris to become only the second American to win international cycling?s biggest race: the Tour de France. "What a compliment to his courage and to his doctors!" says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. "This is one of the most strenuous activities around." Armstrong, who had a hard time convincing any sponsors except the fledgling U.S. Postal Service team that he had it in him, finished the race with a colossal...