Word: genteel
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...picketing Hollywood writers by the secretaries of Warner Brothers studios. In the first weeks of the strike called by the 3,000 members of the Writers Guild of America against movie and television producers and the three major networks, both sides assumed the bemused air of adversaries in a genteel farce. Executives at Disney studios provided storage for picket signs in their conference room. Some writers reported to the picket line outfitted by Gucci and Cardin. One rain-shy striker arrived outside 20th Century-Fox and defiantly lofted his picket sign through the slightly open window of his Rolls-Royce...
Things were not so genteel on the next court where Chase Peterson, using his famous garbage shots, mercilessly creamed Sarah Stearns, Radcliffe's number two player...
...other characters in the hotel lobby also have names, but they might as well have labels. There is the Lady in Genteel Decline. Instead of sherry, she sips memories of the days when the hotel was grand and the world young. There is the Crusty Old Geezer. He has lost most of his marbles, but is testily ad amant about the rules of checkers. There is the Boy in Quest of Identity, who is trying to track down a missing grandfather. And good for more than a few laughs is the Health-Food Evangelist, played by Mari Gorman with...
...went into the woods to confront what he grandly called "the essential facts of life." Spartan-like, he observed flowers blooming, raindrops falling, seasons changing. Of course, the essential facts of Thoreau's life included Emerson's loan of the cabin site at Walden Pond and such genteel activities as frequent walks into Concord for civilized conversation and home cooking. H.D.T. had it both ways, which is more than can be said for the nature he wrote about. The shadow of the surveyor and his Damoclean plumb bob had already fallen across the land. The future held...
...honey and tie him up near an anthill." The big collections, say Curators Bennet Bronson and Donald Collier of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, are supporting an entire underworld. Collectors usually deal only with the last-and most gentlemanly-middlemen. In an atmosphere of genteel negotiation, it is all too easy for acquisitive collectors to concentrate on the beauty of the object and forget about how it was obtained. This is natural, since the death of the stolen antiquities trade might mean the end of grand-scale collecting...