Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect compliment to the great master'sgenius, an appropriate citation from Hesiod's"Works and Days" was emblazoned on the glowinggreen walls that surrounded the exhibit...
...scene, after Melvin's inability to pay her a compliment has nearly destroyed her self-esteem, Simon gets a flicker of inspiration and draws her in the nude, boosting her confidence in her femininity. The attention the camera lavishes on her might seem excessive if her performance wasn't also so disarmingly real: Hunt makes it clear that gutsy Carol, after so much time spent worrying about her son and so many days serving lunch to Melvin, has earned these moments of beauty. Most important, she has an answer for most of Melvin's zingers--which might...
Robert Smith, who in 1993 designed a T-shirt with the words "People's Republic of Cambridge," said that the phrase is meant as a compliment...
Harvard fans rarely get that kind of a compliment...
...discover, is George Clooney's hero. But Clooney does not want merely to act like Martin; he wants to be Martin, to be this 1950s manly man of the big screen. George wants to recreate the time when "men were men and women were broads but 'broad' was a compliment." Which may be the most honest section of the article. The vision of masculinity that Clooney tries to embody is a fiction of the screen and the novel, circa the 1950s, a disembodied and dangerous ideal-type of what it is to be a real...