Word: compliments
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...point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male, they could be shouting at football games: as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When asked what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...
...likely to have a certain chocolate attitude toward college. To her, the experience of Harvard-Radcliffe, is most important for "the infinite opportunities it offers." She sees college primarily as a set of doors to be utilized, rather than a self-sufficient milieu. And so she chooses to compliment another girl by giving her some utilitarian and unfeminine at tribute: "brilliant," "down to earth," "conscious," "alive," "great" and the like...
...castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom, a venal demimonde in which the greatest compliment that can be paid a man is to say that he has "juice" (influence in the right places). The city is the ultimate affront to taste...
...revival, says La Scala's Co-Artistic Director Bindo Missiroli, has all "the nobility of an epic religious poem." Schippers himself regards The Siege of Corinth as "the most inventive opera Rossini ever wrote." Hard-to-please Milanese opera buffs are paying the ultimate compliment to the Michigan-born maestro: they say that it is really the work of a new composer named Rossini-Schippers...
...farm revolution and now boast that "the world is our campus." His approach makes purists shudder. As they see it, M.S.U. is a big "service station" that fills up students with trade-school courses like Sewage Treatment or the Dynamics of Packaging. To Hannah, the criticism is almost a compliment: "The object of the land-grant tradition was not to de-emphasize scholarship but to emphasize its application...