Word: pleasing
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In an effort to create an image of Cineplex Odeon as the class act of exhibitors, Drabinsky has spent $30 million spiffing up his 30 Manhattan venues. But he has earned at least that much in negative press with the ticket hike and with last September's shuttering of the...
The Vice President launched a sneaky missile in the debate when he challenged his rivals to release their tax returns. Dole was the target; Bush aides estimate he and his wife Elizabeth had combined 1986 incomes of close to $600,000. If true, this figure might undercut Dole's pleas...
Hart, who has been on the lecture circuit, noticed that audiences rarely raised questions about his personal life. When they did, his pleas for a certain privacy usually set off loud applause. "People are not mean," he said in a grateful tone. "There's a goodness out there." The hostile...
And such pleas of worry they cried through the night,
The effects of that horrific bulletin can plunge thousands of American lives into a maelstrom. Desperate ticket-counter pleas. Improvised sleeping arrangements. Long-distance calls to explain that you are in Wichita with no plausible hope of joining the family around the festive stuffed turkey.