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...terrible speechmaker. Nowadays in public, and often in private, he seems more a crackling stand-up monologuist than a sober corporate spokesman, a sort of Rodney Dangerfield who gets all the respect in the world, or George C. Scott's Patton turned happy and unthreatening. "I gotta tell ya," Iacocca told a wined-and-dined gathering of stock-market analysts in Detroit earlier this month, "with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene." (The bonus, to be made public soon, was about $500,000.) Asked at a press...
...little treasure. Littleness is the key to many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones...
...Moore's and Edwards's best known collaboration, 10, Moore was a musician undergoing a romantic mid-life crisis. On the hunt for the perfect woman, he learns from Bo Derek that it ain't what ya got, it's what ya do with it. Rob the journalist is merely an extension of Moore's part in 10, less smutty and more family-minded. In face after the lesson learned in 10, children are the logical next step for middle-aged male monomania...
...dress were all part of an intangible and authentic star quality that transformed a little-known Congresswoman from Queens into a national celebrity. Above all, it was the set of her jaw and the firm, conclusive nod of her head following some statement or other beginning, "Frankly, lemme tell ya," that showed the strength at her core...
Even though I have lived on Long Island for ten years, I still long for the polite "Yes Ma'am" and friendly "Ya'll come back" of my native Memphis. I also miss the luncheons, teas and dinner parties that never went out of style down there. There is something to be said for a place like Memphis, where people take the time to mind their manners...