Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John F. Kennedy surprised her with his unpresidential boyishness. Charles de Gaulle, she remembers, paid her an un precedented compliment at Kennedy's funeral by starting a conversation in English. John Foster Dulles was "that cold gray man obsessed with his own brinkmanship." Her associates get little more charity: Ben-Gurion is recalled as "not a man to whom one could be close...
...Another takes a more show business view of the situation: "Let's face it, she's box office. Sarah is the Luis Tiant of opera." Sarah, who likes the roar of the crowd as much as any athlete and loves baseball, might just take that as a compliment...
...Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles Branson's finest performance to date. If this seems a modest compliment, Hard Times is evidence that there may be larger ones...
...fact, Mc loone is currently an entertainer. He plays the piano for a living, and he remembers his former coach fondly. Admitting to his obesity as a freshman, McLoone returned the compliment in kind...
...piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...