Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the best moments in the movie come with their smallest gestures: Bugsy snapping the brim of his fedora; Tallulah cosying up to a customer, taking off his glasses and starting to tease him as the flustered fellow gropes desperately for his tortoise shells; Dandy Dan deflecting a compliment from his gang with an uncharacteristic- thus unconvincing- show of humility and a disingenuous demurrer. "Too kind, guys. Too kind...
...spellbinding, the same old Jerry Ford-that is the image that he will project to the delegates in Kansas City this week. His critics complain he has failed to grow dramatically in stature or skill in the job that he holds and wants to keep. His friends compliment him for avoiding the pomposity, the paranoia and the isolation that have been occupational hazards for some of his predecessors. Both the critics and the friends are right. Ford is remarkably unchanged by 24 months in the presidency and nearly a year of grueling battle for the nomination...
...compliment him on a very effective campaign and on his articulation of his political philosophy-and I'd thank him for his support in the general election...
...bull terrier. But this is undoubtedly not his last sojourn in the U.S. Says the guru: "Americans are good, loving and affectionate, law-abiding and disciplined. They have everything material; now they are searching for and deserve to find true happiness." Americans who encounter the guru return the compliment. Says Joy Anderson, a former dancer who now runs the Catskills ashram with her husband: "He is the perfect guru for the West. We expect when we put something in to get something out -like instant coffee-and from Baba you get instant experience...
...counter-influence. I do not believe that it's a substitute for factual, objective journalism...I don't see how it's any substitute at all for that--if you had nothing but advocacy journalism, where would the advocates get the facts with which to advocate? It's a compliment [to conventional journalism] and I'm glad we have it. I think there should be considerable care used by the alternative press to be certain that in advocating they do not go into falsehood...