Word: fanaticize
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This is a casual romance between a school and its jocks. A team may be embraced when things are going well or the competition is worthy, or given the cold shoulder a week later. There is no marriage, and in fact, except with a minority of fanatic and devoted fans...
The deep-dish whammy comes from a Lakers fanatic, bravura bench jockey and this year's monster movie star, Jack Nicholson. He is letting off a little steam by putting on the kind of pressure he gets and cultivates almost every day. Nicholson is a past master at the...
At the same time, politics has been frequently contaminated by the law of celebrity. It works two ways. According to Andy Warhol's dictum that "in the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes," overexposure or premature adulation tends to burn up talent too quickly; the public...
Died. Haj Amin el Husseini, 80, fanatic former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; of a heart ailment; in Beirut. Haj Amin, whose elfin, almost angelic appearance concealed a wily, often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made...
So far, the harshest critic of Sadat's pro-American policies is neighboring Libya and its President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Last week Egyptian-Libyan relations hit a new low when Cairo implied that Gaddafi-a Moslem zealot who fancies himself Nasser's heir as the champion of the...