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Word: fawning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good moments were too few and too far between, and even they were soured by embarrassing sequences such as the White Knight's and the Fawn's, both played by Ben Schatz, when the script, music and acting combined to explore the depths of gooey and contrived sentiment. The Fawn sequence was marred not so much by the flowery romanticism of the song as by the Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Failure in Matherland | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...time Son Ralph became a published humorist (My Years in the White House Doghouse; Yes, My Darling Daughters), the Journal- American had wrapped its last fish. The son had become more prominent than his father, and the hail-'ellows in Toots Shor's who used to fawn on Paul could hardly remember his name, much less his deeds. But Ralph never for got. Editor Schoenstein died in 1974; it was probably his only instance of faulty timing. For Writer Schoenstein has produced a filial, funny book that Superman would have loved - and that anyone might admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New York Superman | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Atomic Tommy wiped out going around the bend; he took the curve too fast. A little fawn-colored dog named Refuge nosed into the lead and clinched...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...wonder drugs help to lower the initial fever, ease the aching head and bones, stop the hacking cough and make rubbery legs feel strong again. Dr. Donald O. Lyman, director of New York's Bureau of Disease Control, advises: "I'd stay in bed, let people fawn over me, drink my fruit juice, and take my tincture of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Mean A/Texas Attacks | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...just the claw marks on her chin, but her lines of travel, and of strain ... honourable scars from all the battles against her bad luck and her bad judgement." Connie Sachs, Circus Sovietologist beyond compare, "a huge, crippled cunning woman, known to the older hands as Mother Russia." Fawn, Smiley's recessive factotum and "scalp hunter"?professional killer; Craw, an old China hand of archbishoprical speech and mien, shamelessly based on the form and choler of Sunday Times Correspondent Richard Hughes: "We colonize them. Your Graces ... we are hideous not only in their sight, Monsignors, but in their nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In for the Gold | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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