Word: gentlemanly
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...concedes Harvard Fellow Howard Felperin, 24. "Then you don't get a teacher-student relationship but a mutual inquiry." Sometimes, admits Janis Hull, 27, an attractive brunette and a three-year TA at Cal, "you have to guard against too much social involvement." She recalls the "young gentleman student" who stopped by her house "to discuss a poor grade on his Aristotle paper-and just happened to have a bottle of Jack Daniel's in his briefcase...
Sporting a pepper-red wig, a low English accent, and the ever-ready air of a lass who welcomes surprise, Kim is pinched, pursued, manhandled, and upended at regular intervals. She excels in barroom brawls and petticoat larceny: popping a gentleman's ring onto her tongue, she kisses him until he has to surface, then drops the gem into her decolletage...
...gentleman whose hygiene was in question replied with a curt "This morning" and added "I was about to ask you the same thing. What is that horrible smell...
...Yogi Berra. Two weeks ago, when the New York Mets decided to get the most out of Yogi's coaching by taking him off their player roster, they put him on waivers for $1. Explained a Mets spokesman: "Naturally, no one would claim him-it's a gentleman's agreement among clubs." Trouble is, Maxine is no gentleman. She's a Yogi fan. So she whipped off a letter to the club saying: "Since it doesn't seem like anyone really wants him, I thought I would buy him." Yogi seemed to doubt that...
Montoya was very good in the lead role, both verbally and mimetically. As the professor became increasingly less fatuous and more monstruous, Montoya's characterization kept pace. He was fully able to express the variety of moods demanded by the part, from the timid but pompous gentleman of the beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...