Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS: THE ARTISTRY OF TONY BENNETT (Columbia/Legacy) is a four-disc retrospective of one of the world's best song stylists. Not an act of autohagiography, like the current Barbra Streisand set, this 87-tune panorama showcases a singer who is as gracious with a melody as he is generous with his collaborators. Sinatra may supply more drama, Cole may have been cooler, but no one can get to the quick of a lyric with the easy emotion of Bennett. The selections range from the pop- heavy The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1950) through some surprises (a swinging, ebullient...
...good man, generous, hog-on-ice independent, cheerful in a wry sort of way, more than halfway decent. But his life is coming apart. His wife has left him, of course, though his dog, a surly pit-bull cross called "dog," small d, has stayed. He has done some penitentiary time, for cop fighting, and won't be too surprised to find himself jugged again. His pickup truck needs a new transmission. So does...
...questions came from a group of Senators who had been disfigured by a failure of both intellect and empathy. Faced with a wounded woman, 14 men merely turned their heads. The most generous explanation is that it was more a political lapse than a human one. But even when the legal arguments and public outcry followed, it took considerable patient explaining to show the distinguished members that they had made a travesty of the confirmation process and a mess of two people's lives...
...managed to negotiate a contract for myself in which I was very generous with the terms of my employment. The document reads...
...ever get up and don't want to come to work, maybe. But that's never happened in 19 years. And I'm lucky to have a very generous husband. The office has come such a long way. In 1972 there were 18 convictions in sexual- assault cases in New York City's five counties, and now, I think, the five counties combined have several hundred successful convictions every year. Women can recover from rape, from the hopelessness and from the feeling that the guy will never be punished. Recovery is helped immensely by a conviction...