Word: chumming
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...knack for unearthing and exploiting the primal emotions of childhood, in this case sibling rivalry. Danielle, 15, can't understand why her parents and friends find her pesky little brother Peter, 9, so endearing. He's always trying to horn in on her fun. When Danielle and a chum are practicing a mock-hypnotism act for a school skit, Peter--natch--insists that Danielle hypnotize him. Uh-oh. Not only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from the basement, calling Peter...
...Nyet was the official reply. So Albright, the former professor and Democratic Party player, decided to teach the hard-liners about hardball politics. She marched down the stairs, greeting the surprised guards with a few choice Russian words; they let her pass. She suggested she might dial up old chum IGOR IVANOV--a.k.a. the Russian Foreign Minister--if her 40-person entourage was not allowed off the plane; the Russians acquiesced. Within minutes, the Albright party was browsing in the terminal. Then suddenly the region's most powerful man, the Governor, appeared--to present Madam Secretary with flowers...
RUPERT ("MADONNA LOVES ME") EVERETT AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: actor/fashion fixture BEST PUNCH: Referred to ex-chum as "that big blob," and regretted "there's not a closet big enough for him to hide...
...playing baseball, throwing rocks and riding his bicycle to the Roy Rogers movies downtown. But more telling is that after completing the trifecta of a privileged East Coast education--Andover, Yale and Harvard--Bush returned in 1975. "He decided these were just his kind of people," says boyhood chum Charlie Younger. Bush wore loafers without socks, but in the time he lived there, first as a young bachelor and then with Laura, he fit right in with a place known for casting a cold eye on uppity outsiders. "In Midland if you take yourself too seriously, someone will shut...
...with Gielgud superbly seedy as a down-on-his-art writer. Yet his first love was Shakespeare, and one imagines the feeling was mutual. In the celebratory book Sir John, Guinness recalls a dinner in the '30s when Gielgud dithered about which of many projects to do next. One chum finally said, "Oh, shut up, dear! Just stick a crown on your head and get on with...