Word: gentleman
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...most Miamians know, it would be a mistake to dismiss McMullan simply as the town grouch. Renowned though he is for his cantankerousness, McMullan maintains the charm, the manner and the vocabulary of a gentleman, even as now, in retirement, he drives to break 80 on the golf course and master his new IBM Personal Computer, a staff going-away gift. With a similar determination to preserve integrity in private and public, he insisted that the suicide in 1976 of his daughter, a psychiatric nurse, be fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional...
Holmberg sent for his old college biology book (he had received a gentleman's C in the course) and pored over it at night. By the time he returned to the U.S. in 1973, he had decided to become a doctor. In a year of dedicated slogging, he took the necessary preliminary courses and then graduated from Columbia University's medical school. He was determined to join the CDC, much to the amusement and disdain of more success-oriented classmates. "I was called a Goody Two-Shoes," he remembers...
With good roles for black actors something of a rarity, Lou Gossett, 47, is being offered just about every part that isn't suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military...
...then sustaining the audience's attention for the 10 scenes and this group does so by making each scene equally as powerful as the others. Each actor develops his own persona, which Schnitzler has broadly classified as whore (Carolone Isenberg), soldier (Tim Banker), parlour maid (Holley Stewart), young gentleman (Benjamin Cobb), young wife (Anne Higgins), husband (Jonathan Magaril), sweet young thing (Debbie Wasser), poet (Alek Keshishian), actress (Amy Brenneman), actress (Amy Brenneman), and Count (Paul O'Brien...
Percy is aware that this forbidding subject requires a light touch. In fact, most readers know the author as the genteel Louisianian who wrote such mournfully charming novels as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins. But there is also Percy the Dixie Kierkegaard who wrote The Message in the Bottle. That 1975 collection of essays attempted to relieve the ache of self-estrangement by arguing that humankind was the glory of the universe because it was the only known species that used language (as distinguished from the intelligent communication of chimps and dolphins...