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...What he can't accept is a compliment or concern, especially from the ladies. When Sally murmurs that she wishes she could help him, Sidney feels obliged to shoot down the neediness at once: "And what will you do... open your meaty, sympathetic arms...?" That "meaty" is a zinger. It shows how practiced Sidney is at hurting people; he can do it so acutely without hardly trying. Does he even know who's on the receiving end of his barbs? At one point he calls Sally "Sam," even as he sometimes addresses J.J.'s secretary Mary (Edith Atwater) as "Maida...
...Last week the judge concluded Smith deserved half the investment income Marshall earned during their marriage, plus $44 million in punitive damages resulting from the younger Marshall's attempts to deceive and repudiate her. Apparently, Pierce's repeated references to Smith as "Miss Cleavage" were not meant as a compliment...
...sharpest worry is that national homogeneity continues to be Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from...
...Genji was written a thousand years ago, and the name of its author has not come down to us. (It is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu. Murasaki is the name given to a charming character in the book, later attached to the writer as a joke or compliment that stuck. Shikibu is the name of an office the character's father once held.) The English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding...
...impress visiting Wall Street analysts. As the analysts trooped through, the Enron employees, who had hurriedly outfitted their new work spaces with family photos and other personal items, conducted fake phone conversations and tried to appear busy. When the tour ended, former CEO Ken Lay reportedly returned to compliment the employees on their performance and explain that it was important that the analysts believe the trading unit was well organized so the company would earn a favorable credit rating...