Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitude toward money swivels wildly. Anjelica just got a Mercedes for her 23rd birthday. According to Mike Nichols, Nicholson always has "several thousand bucks out" to help friends over some rough spots. But Roman Polanski says that at other times Nicholson is "stingier than W.C. Fields." Once at Maxim's, Nicholson fought for and won the $600 check. When he found that one of his dinner companions could have taken care of the bill as a business expense, he was miserable...
...tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another amiable fallacy. There is, then, a case for heroes...
...such an understanding among officials could not be guaranteed to withstand pressure from post-Watergate public opinion, especially with trials of former presidential aides still pending. Beyond that, there is the simple maxim of never confronting today what can be put off until tomorrow. In law, delay is generally thought to favor a defendant. From a pocketbook point of view, that is particularly true for Nixon, since as President he has access to the kind of legal advice that would cost in six figures if he had to seek it privately...
...Tour d'Argent is one of only four Parisian restaurants that consistently earn three stars-the highest rating-from the Guide Michelin, France's arbiter of gastronomy. The others: Maxim's, Las-serre and Le Grand Vefour...
...malice to be a good hostess," and she has been a very good hostess indeed. "I'm afraid I'm rather malevolent about people," she says without a hint of contrition. Embroidered on a small pillow in a second-floor drawing room is her favorite maxim: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, come...