Word: compliments
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...because Batali cries into his pickled vegetable salad about his friend Lagasse's success. He doesn't. (When asked about Lagasse, Batali pauses and then begins, "He's the most famous chef of all time"--which, depending on how you think about it, isn't necessarily a compliment...
Varmus's tenure at NIH saw enormous success for the institute, both in gaining bipartisan political support and in recruiting talenting researchers. The New Yorker called Varmus perhaps "the most effective backstairs politician the Clinton Administration has produced." Congress gave him the highest compliment of all: a $5 billion funding increase...
...Klain's main purpose before the microphones was to compliment the canvassing boards of Florida for doing a top-notch job thus far - and to tell the assembled reporters why he thought so: With 13 of the 60-odd counties "fully or partially completed," he claimed, Al Gore had picked up 58 net votes. "The counts were clearly on a pace for Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman to make up the difference and pull ahead." And some of those counties were Republican...
When the band played Springfest last year, members took a liking to Averell's posters showcasing his own variety show, "The B.J. Show," and sought him out to compliment...
...story of a man who survives a horrific train wreck and the stranger he encounters afterward, with two actors in mind: Willis (as the survivor) and Jackson (as the stranger). He was drawn to Willis for his Everyman quality and to Jackson for his incantatory elocution. Jackson returns the compliment. "[Shyamalan] knows how to use language," says the actor. "He gives characters an opportunity to express themselves. They tell you how they feel about certain things, how they feel about certain people, how they feel about themselves. But he also doesn't do it in such a way that when...