Word: besottedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lo's Diary, translated by Ann Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert...
If there had been a TV show Andrew Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said...
Charming convict Jack Foley (George Clooney) breaks out of prison. When U.S. marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), conveniently parked nearby, tries to block his egress, Foley shoves her into a car trunk, hops in and tells his pal (Ving Rhames) to drive. It's certainly a cute way to meet...
But despite the Muppets' success on Sesame Street and their demonstrated appeal to adults as well as children, no U.S. network would give Henson a show of his own. It was a British producer, Lew Grade, who finally offered Henson the financing that enabled him to mount The Muppet Show...
Meanwhile, some of Lewinsky's former co-workers were telling the Washington Post that she was "besotted" with the President and, as early as the summer of 1995, fantasizing about having sex with him in the Oval Office. It was an unusual aspiration, since most interns were more interested in...