Word: reproaches
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Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
Over the summer, though, it was hard not to notice, as hundreds of union members took to the streets to advocate higher pay and reproach management for delaying an agreement...
Over the summer, though, it was hard not to notice, as hundreds of union members took to the streets to advocate higher pay and reproach management for delaying an agreement...
...begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life is a reproach: the "dying man with a dead language and no place to go" becomes a millionaire and survives to age 93. Eddie, ever the loser, is incapacitated by a stroke...
...Because critics are beneath contempt, they think they are above reproach. And they may be right. Once, when a notoriously generous reviewer was accused of taking Hollywood money, a cynical colleague dismissed the charges: "Why pay for something you can get for free...