Word: gentlemenly
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...door of the office swung open, I saw Kennedy behind his desk with a dark face reading TIME. "Where'd you get this story about me posing for the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly? It's all a lie." I really did not know anything about the story, I stammered, but would find...
...Yeah, right. The Microsoft boss was thoroughly grilled over every aspect of his putative monopoly: Browser bundling. Predatory pricing. Shady licensing. Even Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond got in on the act. But they found themselves outpaced by Barksdale, a great showman. "Gentlemen, that's a monopoly," said the Netscape chief after asking for a show of hands from audience members with Windows 95. "We're letting the tail wag the dog here," he added...
...think ourselves ladies and gentlemen of taste, connoisseurs of finer books and deeper thoughts. Then we see some ravishing creature on the street or the screen, and we are starstruck kids, our brains shut off, hearts turned to mush...
Stepping through the door, one enters a schizophrenic barber shop. The single aisle has counters on either side: one sports old-fashioned toiletries, while the other is a condensed CVS. This is the place Harvard gentlemen shop for for an elegant shaving-cream brush (real beaver-fur brushes sell for $40 to 100). The store will also satisfy any student obsessed with hair care: over forty different hairbrushes are discreetly displayed behind glass...
...cold winter's evening, Jaworski went to dinner with the TIME Washington bureau and some of TIME's editors from New York. Setting the ground rules for the evening, one of the New Yorkers announced that on that occasion, we were all "gentlemen, not journalists"; that is, Jaworski's comments were "off the record." Toward the end of the evening, Jaworski said he wanted to speak hypothetically. What if, he wondered, a new prosecutor had arrived from Texas and heard the tapes and found they contained enough evidence to indict the President for obstruction of justice. Wouldn...