Word: compliment
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...conglomerate, which four years later turned it over to a textile group run by Matteo Marzotto. Giammetti treats the young plutocrat as a nuisance at best: "Matteo is a very nice guy. I like him as a friend. But whatever he says has no value." Marzotto returns the compliment to his elder: "He's like an old lion. He's trying to roar, like this, but he has no voice." In fashion, as elsewhere, money talks; and by the end of the film Marzotto has cashed out, selling the firm to Permira for $1.1 billion...
...because as I was finishing the second sheet of copy, he materialized and said in his electric whisper, "Keep it coming. Everything you've got. I don't care how long it is. I want it all." In my 53 years as a writer, that remains the greatest compliment I have ever received...
...certainly contains its share of popcorn breaks: hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning. But it bravely pursues its agenda with a monomaniacal grandeur, on the order of Speed Racer and Synecdoche, New York. (Loyal readers will understand that I mean this as a compliment.) Both admirable for and cramped by its fidelity to the Moore vision, this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. Yes, the bits are glorious, the pieces magnificent. Still, this Watchmen is more like a swatch...
...crowd would respond with a rousing “Ooooooooooo.” Or a nice elderly woman would move aside to give me a better view of the Jumbotron. Or the fat guy squishing me against a hot dog stand would turn around and compliment me on my four Obama buttons. I couldn’t imagine a nicer...
...expect it at all. Last year, when they came to Israel, I thought, Hmm, they came to my home country - maybe, you know, there's a reason for it. But I didn't get the cover, and it's O.K. because working with Sports Illustrated is such a big compliment anyway that it's not even a disappointment. Now that I am on the cover, I understand how exciting...