Word: courtship
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...most improbable celebrity match of the '90s: Hollywood's pretty woman Julia Roberts and lizard-visaged country singer Lyle Lovett. Yet when they wed after a month-long, blinders-on courtship in 1993, Lovett's admirers were the ones to ask, What does he see in her? Wasn't he the more courtly, substantial, vulnerable of the two? After their bust-up 21 months later, the uncouple remained tantalizingly mum. But Lovett, a caustic songwriter, could be expected to have the last words...
...city's sparkling business district. For years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...
...self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature. In the first of two parallel plots, a pair of practical jokes leads to the Love Nest killings. A second story line relates the daring courtship and tragic marriage of Edward and Katrina, who remarks, "It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself." It's a point well taken throughout this tale of unforeseen consequences and fierce individualists...
...senior. McDougal, who cut quite a figure around campus with his Savile Row suits, straw hats and aristocratic accent, was teaching political science there, an interlude in a career that had included stints as an aide to Arkansas Senators John McClellan and J. William Fulbright. After a yearlong courtship, Jim and Susan were married in Little Rock in May 1976. Among the guests: a promising pol then running for Arkansas attorney general named Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham. McDougal had met Clinton on the Fulbright Senate campaign in 1968, and they quickly became friends...
...process is the local G.O.P. leaders--the Governors in Republican-led states, the state party heads in the rest. This is where Dole's assiduous courtship of that constituency could pay off. These top G.O.P. vassals essentially control their delegate slates. In Ohio, George Voinovich chose virtually all the people who would be Dole delegates. The same is true in California, where Dole and some other candidates have turned to Pete Wilson to fill their delegate slates.Wilson has done his best to put his loyalists in those 165 slots. What that means is that delegates who are pledged to rivals...