"I guess you'd better go," he said amicably.
He spoke amicably with Mr. Fourtou several times, these people said.
"Nah, you don't want an arm wrestle," he suggests, amicably at first.
"Everyone wants to see if something can he settled amicably," Mr. DeCaro said.
By 2000 he had amicably left the HBO project, which continued in development without him, and begun researching a manuscript about the same material.
I was skeptical, but when we neared the fence, he chatted amicably with several Border Patrol officers and they let us through without a problem.
In 1980, at the age of 22, he parted amicably with Mr. Weinstein, took his client list to Los Angeles and became friends with Mr. Brillstein, who worked for himself.
In 1991, he was a co-founder of Premier Technologies, now called Ptek Holdings, a commmunications and data services company based in Atlanta, but he parted amicably from his partner, Boland Jones, in 1997.
He parted amicably with Satish Sanan, the owner, but it was still a blow to have 25 or more high-priced horses moved to the barns of rivals like Bill Mott and Bob Baffert.
If the press swooned, it was due as much to Mr. Patner's ability to declaim -- on the evils of taupe, say -- in a manner that made him seem like a lucid version of Diana Vreeland as it was to the beautiful clothes Tuleh produced Yesterday, Mr. Patner announced that he was amicably bowing out of the partnership to "pursue other interests in fashion".
