Word: thanked
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Manhattan--the one in the Rodgers and Hart song, the city of dreams in '30s movies, the old apogee of swank--has become a figment of Woody Allen's imagination. Thank heavens. Reclamation of the borough's tattered image could be in no better hands. In Annie Hall, Manhattan and this beguiling new comedy, the penthouses have been replaced by SoHo lofts West Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park...
Take Boston, or even any real city in the South--Columbia, South Carolina, say--and you won't see such sloganeering. "Columbia, population 250,027" will do just fine, thank you very much...
...recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken and French pastry. One of the officers offered a prayer: "We are going home. We have finished our job. Let us thank...
...assassination of Ninoy Aquino as he stepped off a plane at the Manila international airport on Aug. 21, 1983. The opinion of the three-judge court ran to 90 pages and took more than two hours to recite, but the verdict boiled down to two words: not guilty. "Thank God, it's all over," said the most important defendant, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Fabian Ver, 65. The general then headed for Malacanang Palace, the presidential residence, where he delivered a letter requesting his reinstatement to the military's top post. Ver had been suspended from that post upon...
...Duncan Kennedy is not the first flaky radical that ever stepped onto the Harvard faculty," Chayes said in the debate last spring. "The Harvard Law School has had, thank God, a tradition of criticism of the society, of criticism of the legal system. That is the excuse for having an academic law school, a law school in a university, rather than a trade school...