Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thank you, says Copeland, who put cheeseburger pizza on the Straya menu and says it's a sign of his restraint and good taste that he didn't put this restaurant "concept" farther up genteel St. Charles, "in the middle of antebellum homes." Copeland, who opened his first Straya in a suburb three years ago without complaint, hired some of the 200 employees for his new restaurant from the depressed neighborhood to the north of the restaurant...
...destined, as Oxford administrators assert, to become a major center for management research in Europe. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper, quickly decried the decision as based on an elitist bias described as "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty...
...comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda's mean and giddy inventiveness, and the directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity...
...grew up shabby-genteel in Baltimore, Maryland, but he gazes out of a 1945 photograph like one of nature's born aristocrats. The face, at age 41, is lean and boyishly handsome, the hair neatly trimmed; there is a casual elegance about his dress. But the dominant features are the eyes: alert, mischievous, wary, playful, like those of an actor savoring the potential of a new role, a fresh persona. Despite the thousands of words written by and about him, Alger Hiss, who died last week at 92, remains one of the most tantalizing figures of the cold...
...assemble a team as begin a desultory conversation with those already around him. The Dole clan was like a dysfunctional family, a cool, taciturn group whose members spoke in shorthand and didn't probe one another's ideas or motivations. There was longtime confidant Mari Maseng Will, a tall, genteel woman who had a real feel for what voters cared about. There was Bill Lacy, a buttoned-down Marylander and trusted Dole aide who would run strategy and message. There was a veteran G.O.P. fieldman named Tom Synhorst, who had managed Dole's winning 1988 Iowa campaign. And there...