Word: noblest
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...people who have the credentials to insult the Dalmatian for its own good are, of course, the very breeders who have spent their lives presenting it as the noblest of canines. It's as if the teenagers who have been standing in a two-mile ticket line for a Foo Fighters concert started buttonholing passing reporters to warn that grunge can lead to poor study habits and might even be a bridge addiction to the music of Lawrence Welk. In a typical radio interview I heard, one authority was going on about how demanding Dalmatians are, and how much hair...
Lamba says the experience convinced her that medicine is "the noblest profession," and after listening to the seer, she knew even more assuredly that it was the right path...
...Herzegovina's Muslim-Croat Federation. A new multiethnic police force would take over security, and Muslims would start going back home. When Grbavica was handed over on March 19, the reunification of Sarajevo was complete, and the occasion should have marked a tremendous achievement for the Dayton negotiations. The noblest dream of the agreements was to restore Sarajevo to its prewar condition as a proud cosmopolitan city where Muslims, Serbs and Croats all lived together. But since the peace was signed, the Serbs have been fleeing Grbavica and other suburbs, looting and burning the buildings they have left behind...
That Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier both donned blackface in famous film versions doesn't mean no one else should try. Parker had the radical idea to cast a black man as Othello, and Laurence Fishburne brings an outsider's dignity to the role of Shakespeare's noblest chump. Irene Jacob is a lovely, sallow Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh--looking bloated and rheumy, slithering snakelike on rooftops, whispering his venomous gossip as if it's his last confession--makes a fine Iago, a demi-devil working his cool wit to destroy those he might have loved...
...noblest in Sabbath, and perhaps in Roth, is the coming-full-circle, the rejoining of ends. Recalling his Jersey Shore childhood, Sabbath is a modern day Thornton Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...