Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wired Neal Page (Steve Martin) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, those travails are merely the beginning. Heading home from a marketing meeting in New York City and rudely denied his customary first-class air accommodations, he is wedged into a center seat in the tourist section between an old gentleman who snores and a chubby gentleman who chats. The latter is Del Griffith (John Candy), a salesman of shower-curtain rings and not at all Neal's kind of guy. He dresses funny, is too eager to be helpful, and has abominable snacking habits. Most reprehensible, he stole...
...code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion is to the code of moral orthodoxy, which Turing violated by his homosexuality. He compounded that transgression by disregarding the Oxbridge gentleman's code of discretion. While homosexual colleagues retained their posts because they did not flaunt their preferences -- some went so far as to marry -- Turing disdained convention...
...very impressive gentleman," Helms said. "I was pleased with what I heard...
Alone at the Top: The Gentleman of Centenary College just couldn't keep up with the Crimson any longer. Last weekend, the nation's only other undefeated team suffered its first defeat of the year, falling in the Trans-America Athletic Conference playoffs. The loss makes Harvard the lone college soccer team to still hold an undefeated record...
...universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises; most families find the strength to soldier on. Boorman is even gracious enough to cap his film with an idyllic reunion of clan Rohan. Mum and her sisters giggle conspiratorially; young Bill, now a gentleman of precious leisure, goes boating on the river. These are images every moviegoer can share as he closes Boorman's lovely memory book...