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Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when h...

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

William Safire 90 quotes

After eating, an epicure give...

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

William Safire 90 quotes

One difference between French...

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire 90 quotes

When your government, employe...

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire 90 quotes

A reader should be able to id...

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

William Safire 90 quotes

Some handsome and ambitious m...

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

William Safire 90 quotes

President Reagan is a rhetori...

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

William Safire 90 quotes

In dealing with Syria's dicta...

In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

William Safire 90 quotes

In lieu of those checks and b...

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

William Safire 90 quotes

If you re-read your work, you ...

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

William Safire 90 quotes

Never assume the obvious is tr...

Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire 90 quotes

Is sloppiness in speech caused...

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire 90 quotes

What we don't need to know for...

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire 90 quotes

Is sloppiness in speech caused...

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire 90 quotes

If you want to 'get in touch ...

If you want to 'get in touch with your feelings,' fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.

William Safire 90 quotes

Is sloppiness in speech caused...

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire 90 quotes

When I need to know the meanin...

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

William Safire 90 quotes

Knowing how things work is the...

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire 90 quotes

If you re-read your work, you ...

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

William Safire 90 quotes

Cast aside any column about tw...

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

William Safire 90 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....