Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Erskine Bowles looks like the same Southern gentleman he was two years ago when he ran a meek and losing campaign against Elizabeth Dole, but he's no longer acting like one. Instead, President Clinton's former chief of staff is hammering away at U.S. Representative Richard Burr for the 80,000 jobs the state's textile and furniture industries have lost. Both candidates are having to backpedal ferociously to justify their past support for free trade...
...defendant then described how he removed his folded knife from his pocket. Admitting his testimony “sound[ed] weird,” he said he stared at the “shining” blade and proceeded to stab at the two gentleman and stumble away...
...when many serious directors, especially in Europe, are making films with graphic sex, Wong remains a gentleman in matters of the groin. 2046 does have one vigorous bedroom encounter, with the nude Leung and Zhang Ziyi attractively entangled. But the erotic knockout punch is a kiss?sudden, brutal, passionate and 35 seconds long?between Leung and Gong Li. They go at each other like two drowning strangers giving each other CPR. Now that's sexy...
...best-loved English writers. Nearly all of his 100-odd novels and story collections are still in print. Wodehouse magazines and fan clubs dot the globe. Hardly a decade passes without a new movie or play inspired by his creations: the dim but affable Bertie Wooster, his long-suffering gentleman's gentleman Jeeves and their screwball cohorts at Blandings Castle and the Drones Club. So rich is Wodehouse's legacy that it is difficult to understand why he almost destroyed it. As Robert McCrum recounts in his exhaustive, elegantly written Wodehouse: A Life (Viking; 530 pages), the author...
...made my debut on Broadway in a show called The Boy Friend in September 1954. My contract ended after a year, but just before I left to go home to England, I received a phone call from a gentleman who said he was the manager for the creative team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. He told me that the duo was creating a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion...