Word: compliments
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...Waldheim thought he would get a p.r. windfall from Havel's visit, he underestimated his man. Though a beaming Waldheim introduced Havel to the crowd in glowing terms, the playwright President did not return the compliment. Instead, using language that was indirect but clear enough, he verbally lacerated his opposite number, who for years concealed his service as an officer in a German army unit linked to Nazi atrocities in the Balkans during World War II. Choosing the fear of history as his theme, Havel called "the expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite...
Since then, she said, the leadership has turnedher half-hearted compliment into an officialmotto. On several occasions the People's Daily hasquoted her as representing a growing number ofAmerican Lei-lovers...
...that expensive Manhattan eating gallery but for allowing himself to be seated in a less fashionable part of the restaurant and thereby impugning the prestige of the whole company. Newhouse is considered so temperamental and publicity-shy that some editors stipulate they cannot be quoted by name even to compliment him. The company's most successful editor, Tina Brown, who transformed Vanity Fair from an undirected, pretentious sprawl to the hottest, hippest monthly of the moment, concedes that Si rates editors by their circulation sales. Says Brown: "I'm very much aware of the numbers. I don't take...
...sure there are women in my dining hall who have serious eating concerns. I worry that someday, when one of them is eating a salad or some yogurt, a paradoxically ignorant tutor will approach and compliment them on their apparently pleasing slimness. And one of them might think this woman knows something. But both of them can easily find this kind of wisdom and judgment from their peers. The apple does not fall far from the tree, but the problem is now even Eve would...
Something is wrong here. To denounce blacks for misdemeanors that we overlook in whites -- that is a double standard. It is not a compliment. It is racism...