Word: gentlemanly
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...half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue, building purposefully to that inevitable climactic gavel rap: "Are you all through? At fifty-five hundred and . . . six, you want him? Fifty-five hundred and . . ." BAM, the gavel would come down, and the gentleman in the fifth row who had firmly decided he could spend no more than $3,500 for the filly would suddenly find himself signing a slip...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...
...Pinter, one of his most frequent collaborators, a fascination with the surfaces of illusion, with the means by which people delude themselves, and with the mechanics of their inevitable undoing. In earlier Losey-Pinter films, the catalysts of doom were generally characters of a certain ambiguous authority, like the gentleman's gentleman in The Servant or the young girl at Oxford in Accident. In their new film, The Go-Between, it is convention that plays the villain...
...like of which I could not have believed lived on earth. They copy my work in the churches and wherever they find it, and then they revile it and say it is not in the antique manner and therefore not good." But he added: "Here I am a gentleman, at home I am a parasite"?from which it appears that Dürer knew more about the business of being a successful expatriate than most travelers ever discover...
...another era, her stories would have been filmed as animated cartoons. That would have been an error. The pale palette, the twinkling brevity could never have been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green...