Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand." Yasser Arafat's tenor voice was urgent and his fluid arms moved to match his Arabic imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates...
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...Fawn Brodie, a U.C.L.A. history professor, makes no such claim. Instead, she sets out to relate the canonized public Jefferson to the passionate, guilt-ridden private man whose sensual adventures have been glossed over by generations of sanctifying historians. Her "intimate history" is based on far-ranging research and a fairly free reading between the lines of Jefferson's published writings, his 18,000 extant letters to others, and some 25,000 that he received...
John Kenneth Galbraith, not one to fawn over anybody, effuses that she "combines scholarship and political sense with damn good food." Former Harvard President Nathan Pusey calls her place "not merely a restaurant, but a cultural exchange center." Danny Kaye trades recipes with her. Dr. Paul Dudley White, the heart specialist, wrote the introduction to her cookbook. To the cerebral celebrities and hungry students of Cambridge, Mass., Joyce Chen, proprietor of a Cambridge restaurant that bears her name, is the Chinese Julia Child. In fact, when Child dines out, she is likely to be found munching pressed duck at Joyce...
...candidate when he waved to you from the back of a train?" Using video clips from training sessions with various high-level candidates (Nixon, James Buckley, Robert Wagner), Ailes demonstrated such tricks as bouncing the eyes downward when changing your gaze from one camera to eliminate that startled-fawn look...