Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have mixed emotions," admitted West, who lost his argument against Rodman with owner Jerry Buss. The Laker organization, one of the most successful sports franchises in the history of overpriced beer, is in lock-the-doors identity crisis. They fire a gentleman who represented the class of the past, and they bring in Rodman's history of tormenting coaches and alienating teammates with tardiness and demon-seed weirdness. Before he'd even put on a uniform, Rodman said the Lakers "don't know the game of basketball." And since they'd fired Harris, Rodman volunteered to coach, saying that...
...beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth. The lit-crit quibbling of this approach at times quickly becomes tedious. Still, these cerebral arguments pale beside Malcolm's acute character studies, little gems of quirk and nuance like an eccentric bolo tie on a dreary elderly gentleman that leavens the confusion of the story with humor and grace...
...give a Democratic prosecutor $50 million to see what he can come up with about Orrin Hatch. Senator Hatch is a fine Christian gentleman, but $50 million is a lot of money. You could find out a great deal about someone for that. Get copies of videotapes from security cameras in every store he ever shopped in, and if he ever scratched himself in public, we could watch it. Maybe he was undercharged for a pack of hair curlers once and neglected to tell the clerk about it. Interview everyone who has a grudge against him--old secretaries...
...willingly. The first step: know the ins and outs of your amant. "You're not going to get very far if you don't know the [color of her] eyes," Stilgoe says. It is also important to know the favorite color of your Valentine. And to be a true gentleman, says Stilgoe, a man might consult a floral dictionary and send flowers with specific meaning. Of course, "in the old days, he could write poetry...
...choice words. A man so influential and powerful cannot be accepting a $16,000 Samurai sword from Nagano or a $300,000 international peace prize from Olympic affiliates in Seoul. And he cannot do so without expecting the IOC rank-and-file to follow his example. The Barcelona gentleman should do what many have been calling on him to do: step down and accept responsibility for steering the Olympic movement in the direction it has taken under his leadership...