Word: befriender
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...McDougal was the kind of go-go entrepreneur that likes to befriend politicians but that politicians sometimes later regret ever having met. His friendship with fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton began in the late 1960s, when both were young staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan...
...marry him. Maybe that's going to be on the next Oprah show." Shields, 27, also grew up naked before the camera and understands the slash and burn of early fame. "It is very hard," she says of Jackson, "when your family turns against you, and when anyone you befriend slaps you in the face. It would amaze you the way people hurt him. What amazes me even more is his willingness to forgive. He acknowledges their frailty, and he allows it to eat away at him. Can you blame him for wanting to be surrounded by the innocence...
...affecting drama named for the Dallas airport where John F. Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve and ambiguity in TV-movie subjects and drawing beautiful interpretations from his lead actresses. As with Pfeiffer here. Her work is glamourless, subtle, heroic; her performance is a righteous heartbreaker...
...highest good at Harvard. It's celebrated, worshipped, whacked over the heads of the student body. We hear it again and again: Harvard is so diverse! Everybody here is so different! Different races, different religions, different activities, different home states, different home countries, even different sexual orientations! You might befriend a Black lesbian poet from Denmark! Or a Japanese-American tennis player from Iowa! Think what you might learn from such diverse people...
Then came Fatal Vision, the biggest hit of his career, with an NBC mini- series to boot. The devil's bargain to make it happen was that McGinniss had to befriend, become the business partner of and even, for technical legal reasons, join the defense team of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a man eventually convicted of beating to death his pregnant wife and two children. Well before the jury spoke, McGinniss had come to believe his man was guilty. But to protect the book contract he had to keep his subject happy, and he did so, not just by concealing opinions...