Word: fawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fisher, romance novelist, is like seeing Margaret Thatcher play the horse in a Christmas pantomime -- and with delicious style. The great gray lady of movie drama brings her precise acting tools to a comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...
...example, the final clubs are an excuse for a bunch of "real guys" to get together and have parties where they can keep out all the "losers" while inviting all their female sycophants from Radcliffe, Wellesley, Lesley, Smith, Pine Manor etc. to fawn over "Harvard...
...known Manhattan matrimonial lawyer, "he stands up and he yells and screams. People know he's there." The dapper Felder, who charges $450 per hour (compared with Mitchelson's $350), attributes his success in part to a no-nonsense way of handling the rich and famous. "You can't fawn over a celebrity," he insists. "Most of them are narcissistic, self-involved, with little insight into what's going on in their life. You have to be able to tell them...
...books and ice hockey, while Gordeeva likes to collect toys, sew and surprise her teammates with batches of home-baked cookies. "We just practice together," says Grinkov. Romantics can take heart that perhaps it is just the age difference. Gordeeva is, after all, only 16. With her wide-eyed fawn's gaze, she is still a giggly high school girl, while Grinkov is a self-assured college...
...Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi, gnomes, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), decorative paving stones, planters and fountains, all neatly stacked in piles up to 6 ft. high. Most impressive is Harper's collection of concrete animals. He has 20 types of deer alone, ranging in size from a miniature fawn up to the just departed buck, and 18 kinds of frogs. There are also lifelike rabbits, geese, chickens, lambs, foxes, crocodiles, armadillos, toy poodles and blue jays. On a larger scale, Harper features full-size pigs and half-size cows and black bears, which nevertheless weigh about a fifth...