Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...context of historic continuity. It does not parade in either a "traditional" or futuristic costume. As time goes by, the context keeps changing. That is why, as each new generation of designers must learn, even the best design does not seem to bring us closer to Utopia. But, as Sir Henry Wotton observed some 350 years ago, the best design gives us "commodity, firmness and delight...
...Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba (London). The Sinfonietta is exhilaratingly played by Sir Charles Mackerras and the Vienna Philharmonic...
...with this whorehouse over by La Grange-lil town, sleepy as a ole hound in the August sun, 'bout halfway 'tween Austin and Houston. The place was listed in the tax books as Edna's Ranch Boarding House, but everybody called it the Chicken Ranch. Well sir for sump'n like 80 years the Chicken Ranch was a place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna...
...cheeks-he started a crusade to close down the Chicken Ranch. And you know, he did. So the girls lit out for towns a little more hospitable to the good life-Austin Galveston, Tijuana. But that wasn't the end of the best little whorehouse in Texas. No sir. It was jes' the beginnin...
...military academy "to become a man"--why else?--amid his concern for the effectiveness of his payoffs, Robertson's Baldwin is, in character and enactment, as limited as only a Hollywood actor could imagine corporate America to be. Julie Newton, whose delivery of an endless stream of "Yes, sir's" would warm Patton's heart, has precisely the degree of emotionlessness one would require of a secretary. Unfortunately, one requires a bit more than that from an actress...