Word: decentering
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...package, that's considered an adequate return. So it's cost them $26 to extract your $25. Unless you send more, they're out a buck. Of course, the money spent finding you is lost whether you respond or not. But that's just the beginning. After waiting a decent interval -- though considerably short of the year you thought you signed up for -- they will begin trying to renew you. (When I did my taxes last year, I discovered I'd paid my annual public-television dues three times.) Renewal notices don't require buying the name (they...
...That in 1969 you could have gotten just about what you got in the end -- a kind of a decent interval, the North Viet Nam army's forces in place in the South, POWs -- and that therefore the price in American lives was way too high...
...hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero, but Lewis is too decent to be mocked...
...star actor -- Kevin Costner, say -- plays a character whom the moviegoer recognizes as Kevin Costner: flinty, rural, resourceful. Baldwin, so far, has enjoyed playing a broad range of roles that engage audiences' interest but not always their sympathy. Decent husband, psycho killer, corporate meanie, hero spy. Like a superior salesman, Baldwin displays his wares without revealing himself. Several directors have called him a chameleon, but McTiernan stresses that "Alec goes further. He gets his freedom by keeping you guessing about who he is. It's a function of his intelligence. Give him a toehold, and he'll scamper...
...John is a decent fellow who is very, very intense and his intensity leads him to do things not too well considered, and politically, they are not the wisest thing to do," says State Rep. John C. Bradford (R-Rochester) "Some of this comes from inexperience. He has to find a way to lessen the intensity. He's ready to explode...