Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prosaic Gentleman...
...shocked, when the same sort of ludicrous out-rage is repeated again and again. Sex and religion, which rank after death as targets of Orton's jesting, also reach a point of diminishing returns after the first machine-gun fire of jokes. Lines such as "God is a gentleman. He prefers blonds," or Truscott's "I wasn't expecting pharaohs" to Hal's cowering outcry "Mummy!" are slipshod lapses...
...about that?" He dispenses footnote facts-Nixon has orange juice, cold cereal and grapefruit for breakfast-but Manolo husbands in true Nixon fashion what he considers to be more controversial information, such as which newspapers the President reads during breakfast: "Oh, one or two. I really cannot say." The gentleman's gentleman has even begun to look like the boss: Manolo's sideburns have fallen to mid-ear level in recent months; his hair has become fuller above the temples, and the greasy kid stuff has disappeared. The reason: Manolo has placed himself in the hands of Nixon...
...Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed to die in childbirth, curses him. Within hours of her funeral, Heathcliff meets his own fate, perishing on the hills where the lovers once swore eternal fealty...
Cetrulo is known for his highly-charged style of fencing, and in the past, many coaches and opponents have complained to him about it. But since fencing is a gentleman's game, the complaints have usually been expressed in gentleman's words. On Saturday, however, this gentleman's play world was intruded by a person who did not know the rules...