Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California to become an intern at CAA while still a teenager, becoming a full agent by the time he was 21 and a millionaire by his mid-20s--that he never had a chance to figure out who he was, beneath all the trappings of worldly success. He spoke eagerly, with a midrange, clipped California accent, his voice filling the room with vague blandishments about how eager he was to stay sober and how grateful he was to his fellow agents who had intervened to send him here and how he was looking forward to getting back to work...
...Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling him from Africa last March with a directive to attack Kosovo. In an interview Monday night on NBC's "Dateline," Sheehy said that at the time of the request, the President was so eager to get himself out the doghouse that he obliged the missus and the next day asked his NATO buddies to join him in an aerial attack on the Balkans...
...those in the latter set (this writer included), the release of a new James Bond film is met with eager anticipation, followed by boyish glee. It is almost like Christmas, but rarer. And Bond's latest, The World Is Not Enough, is no exception...
Given the fact that most of the A.G.s suing Microsoft are Democrats, the company has been an eager supporter of a new outfit that started in midyear, the Republican Attorneys General Association. Housed within the R.N.C., the group will develop policies with G.O.P. principles and support Republican A.G. candidates, says chairman Charlie Condon, attorney general of South Carolina. Among those principles: letting the free market be free. Condon, the only state attorney general to drop off the Microsoft case, won't say how much the company donated to the group. But he isn't embarrassed about the money--or about...
Last confession: I'm as eager to pretend understanding of a hot fad as any journalist. And I do like things kids like; this summer I read all three Harry Potter books, aloud and enthralled, to my wife. So I'm no grinch. Honest. I'm just a guy who loves good cartoons and, when he sees a bad one, gets a little...bit ...UPSET...