"Awards for self-flattery at the Oscars"--a deconstruction of the Oscar-acceptance speeches. gulfstream/712
At noon home, and Goodgroome dined with us---who teaches my wife to sing. After dinner I did give him my song, /Beauty Retire/, which he hath often desired … pepys/243
... and there saw the King play at Tennis and others. But to see how the King's play was extolled without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though … pepys/104