Word: clingingly
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...funny. She likes to kid and tease and make subtle, one-line comebacks. Although she's often described as shy, she's not. She does not cling to the wall at parties and in fact is a skillful host. Although her husband is more voluble, she is not in his shadow or dominated by him. On occasions of state, she will be comfortable and prepared, and important visitors will be impressed...
...still cling to the belief that the rich and famous are just normal people with better lighting, consider the recent Everyman problems of STEVEN SPIELBERG. The director's Brentwood, Calif., neighbors have organized against him because of a planned addition to his 2,400-sq.-ft. home. Prosaic enough, except that the proposed addition is a five-story, 27,000-sq.-ft. riding-ring-and-stable complex with a retractable dome for horse-loving wife KATE CAPSHAW, estimated to cost $7 million. "It's just astounding and obnoxious," claimed an attorney for nearby homeowners. Both sides will argue the case...
...indication that there was no way to finish a recount by the December 12 "safe harbor" deadline that loomed just two hours after the court's decision was made public. Or did it leave wiggle room to get the counts in by the 18th? The Gore campaign could only cling to that last, faint hope...
...Hillary Clinton got herself a U.S. Senate seat. And unlike Al Gore, she soaked up the President's help. Now with the Middle East peace in tatters, impeachment in the first paragraph of his obituary, and Al Gore's status uncertain, Senator Clinton is a legacy the President can cling...
This option has obvious weaknesses. The Democrats, especially because of Gore's likely popular-vote victory, are the party ideologically most disposed toward reform. However, conservatives, almost by nature, cling to old institutions and cherish constitutional artifacts. Many Republicans also believe that their party has an advantage in the Electoral College because it overrepresents the small, rural and G.O.P.-inclined jurisdictions. This isn't true anymore--now that Republican presidential support is overconcentrated in the South--but it used to be in the 1970s and '80s, and old beliefs die hard. Republicans are likely to beat back any constitutional amendment...