Word: fawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although earlier drafts of the majority report accused the Administration of a cover-up, that term is not included in the final version. However, the report details the bumbled investigation by Attorney General Edwin Meese, which allowed North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, time to destroy documents. It criticizes efforts by North, Robert McFarlane and others to falsify testimony that former CIA Director William Casey was to deliver to Congress. Says a staffer: "Even if it doesn't say 'cover-up,' the majority report makes clear that people were trying to keep other people from knowing what had been going...
These days Jessica Hahn, Donna Rice and Fawn Hall are crisscrossing public attention, suddenly shot from obscurity to -- well, not fame and not stardom but a sort of fuzzy, soggy celebritude. They illustrate how the resourceful can profit from publicity that might just embarrass the unambitious. Consider...
...WASHINGTON, this was a big summer. The city of lobbyists, journalists and even a few Congressmen (those who weren't fact-finding on the Champs-Elysee) was abrew with stories of Ollie, Fawn, and shady arms dealers...
...jeans and Western boots, he barreled through 20 minutes of jokes, some of them written only that day and jotted down on note cards. On the Iran-contra hearings: "Senator Inouye . . . now there's a strict-looking guy. He's the principal of the United States of America." On Fawn Hall, Jessica Hahn and Donna Rice: "I love the way they describe these women as part-time models. I brush my teeth every morning -- does that make me a part-time dentist?" On Princess Di: "With twelve bodyguards around her all the time, how could she possibly have an affair...
...eyed Marine. Some would-be casting agents, however, favor Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford. And who better to portray the portly former National Security Adviser John Poindexter than Edward Asner? On the basis of hairstyle alone, Farrah Fawcett is a shoo-in for the part of Ollie's secretary, Fawn Hall. Unless, of course, she beats out Rice Look-Alike Cheryl Ladd for the lead in Donna's story...