Word: gentlemanly
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...already partly inside. Take for example, last week’s House debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga) said, “I think God has spoken very clearly on this issue”. When contradicted, he replied, “I refer the gentleman to the Holy Scriptures...
...confined to restaurant food, and in towns the size of Jamestown (pop. 15,500), that means "casual dining" establishments. Before the era of chain dining - of Applebee's and Outback and that graybeard T.G.I. Friday?s (founded 1965) - business-traveler dining was different. I like to imagine that a gentleman in a Cary Grant suit stepped from his plane (itself stewarded by a pillbox-hatted attendant who had served gin martinis) and drove to a local place to eat crunchy fried chicken and flaky blueberry pie. I like to imagine the gentleman then retreated to a downtown hotel where...
...authored One Lonely Knight, the only book-length study of Spillane. Collins credits Spillane with creating, in Hammer "the template for James Bond, Dirty Harry, Billy Jack, Rambo, John Shaft, and countless other fictional tough guys." (When TIME reviewed Casino Royale, it praised Bond as "Mike Hammer in gentleman's clothing...
...been quiet, with a dull gaze that harbors reproach, for him or herself or both. At one point she touches her dark shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death sentence: "The worst is my coming back...
...interested in? Media training - a testament to the narcissism of the profession, perhaps. The workshop culminated in mock TV interviews of newly minted pundits. The interrogations were suitably aggressive - the let's-pretend network must have been Fox News - though only a few newbie talking heads were rattled. One gentleman who came forward to playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented him on his quick recovery...