Word: eggheaded
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...next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will not be on the Oprah Winfrey Show because he is seemingly uncomfortable and conflicted about being chosen as a book-club selection. It is never my intention to make anyone uncomfortable or to cause anyone conflict." (Translation: Take that, egghead.) Franzen apologized, to no avail. Now his publisher is the one cringing...
...Lear has the sort of temperament that might be described by Archie Bunker as "hebe Hollywood egghead" ? or, if Archie knew the word, compulsive. The only eye in the hurricane of activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet...
DEAN KAMEN Egghead gets $250K for book on secret invention. Is "IT" a publisher-scamming device...
...just made up. Even the term is bulls___." She starts talking about the lessons in life she learned from studying social anthropology at Cambridge, then stops herself and laughs. "It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a boffin," she says, using the English slang for egghead...
...champion for 14 weeks, ultimately winning $129,000. Van Doren became so famous and popular that when he finally lost his title, NBC gave him a $50,000 annual contract and a spot on its Today show. For a while, at least, America fell in love with an egghead, until the country learned he had been coddled...