Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WALTERS COULD SUM UP THIS year in one word, what would it be? "Busy." In person, she is as gracious and attentive as she is on the tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went...
...defendant himself, living a life that would be the envy of any 19th century man of leisure: pleasant days at the country club filled with golf and card playing, nights lost to the social whirl, gentlemanly "work" that consisted of getting paid to play even more golf. Unfailingly gracious, our hero would receive representatives of the striving classes with equanimity. But Denise Brown, for one, discovered the perils of social climbing when she was so unrefined as once to suggest that Simpson was neglecting her sister Nicole; according to Brown's testimony, he literally threw the two of them...
...They were invited to stay there and they stayed there [a] year ago, and he was gracious enough to invite them back," said Neel Lattimore, deputy press secretary for Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Though smart enough to beat your brain to the finish line twice before breakfast, Crichton is self-effacing sometimes to the point of disingenuousness, gracious to the point of ingratiation. Yet all the while you sense that if things weren't going his way, things wouldn't be going at all. After a day or two in his company, one gathers that Crichton would choose, in a fair world, to be treated like the next fellow; he would prefer that we acknowledge his genius, but make no fuss. ("How smart is Michael?" his wife was once asked. "How smart...
Then, in a reflex that testifies to the toll that brutality has taken on this once most gracious and cosmopolitan city, Vahida apologized for her anger. "I no longer trust anyone or believe anything," she said. "I just don't have any hope left...