In our talks he mentioned respect over and over respect for the girls, respect for the employees, respect for the patrons, respect for the term "gentlemen's club"—respect comes first for Jesse.
He then warned them in vulgar terms: "Gentlemen, this time there will be no betrayal, because whoever betrays now is scum".
(Some translators have rendered this term as "gentleman," "noble person," or "exemplary person").
Early in the uprising, the government informally negotiated with Kurdish leaders, reaching what some had termed "a gentleman's agreement" to forestall mass unrest.
But these settlements, designed to help councils plan for the long term, are gentlemen's agreements, not legally binding, and rumours now buzz that the cash-strapped Treasury is contemplating cutting next year's grant.
What those pictures have in common, of course, is that they're all about groups of young men who are at best aimless, at worst useless, and unanimously clueless about women; "I Vitelloni," which literally means "the veal calves," is a slang term for gentlemen of that persuasion.
In her first 15 years in the public eye, she was best known for the sensual vibrancy and earthy verismo she brought to her roles — notably the Oscar-nominated performances in "An Officer and a Gentleman," "Terms of Endearment" and "Shadowlands".
Best of all was Harryhausen's longtime friend Ray Bradbury, who told the tale of how they met, aged 18, for the first time outside the house of mutual pal Forrest J Ackerman (the man who coined the term "sci-fi" – these gentlemen pretty much invented everything).
Before duck houses and subsidised pornography gave the term new currency, the "Gentleman's Club" at Westminster was obvious to anyone scanning the green benches for women or ethnic minorities.
