Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher and Marlboro Man of letters. "I guess I'm kind of like lip cancer," he says with a wry smile. "I just won't go away...
...little I got a Chipmunks song on a red colored single in a Captain Crunch box, I found the Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" in an issue of Time magazine, and they handed out copies of "Up Where We Belong" at a screening of An Officer and A Gentleman. Of Course, these were all soft and fragile pieces of vinyl not meant to last a lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul--or the lack thereof--of the compact disc is such a technological...
Ostensibly, Stevens sets out to write an account of his motor trip. But he tells a story that he only begins to understand when it and his journey are all but over. He cannot forget Lord Darlington, dead now three years, the gentleman whom he served for so long. He defends his late master against the initially unspecified "utter nonsense" that has been written and spoken about him since the end of World War II. And he fusses over the attributes that create a "great" butler, finally coming up with a definition that satisfies him: "And let me now posit...
Jeeves, the butler, is the sure-five cure for hangovers, lack of fashion sense and meddling aunts. The play depicts how Reginald Jeeves, a gentleman's gentleman, first meets his employer Bertram "Bertie" Wooster and starts to run his life...
...gentleman" navigating by Porsche the congested Saturday-afternoon Harvard Square traffic lost his temper and blared his horn at the crowd crossing before him. He was about to learn firsthand about Harvard Square pedestrians...