Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their range and complexity. Trevor can be sharply funny, as in his description of a television director: "Attired in what appeared to be the garb of a plumber but which closer examination revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that were unusual, being silver-coloured; and beneath each armpit, in a shade of fawn that matched his dungarees, were sewn-on patches, appearing to symbolise a labourer's excretion of sweat...
...DIED. Fawn McKay Brodie, 65, historian whose 1974 psychobiography Thomas Jefferson: an Intimate History alleged that the nation's third President had a 38-year love affair with a black slave woman named Sally Hemings, who bore him five children; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...rock version of Gilbert and Sullivan," he explains. "I wanted pop singers to make us rehear the lines." In fact, that seemingly odd casting was a master stroke, and both performers may be duly anointed as perfect in their parts. Ronstadt, 34, looks as innocent as a fawn and is able to hit high notes that her rock fans probably never knew existed. Even she was surprised. "I discovered I had this other voice that I'd forgotten about," she says. "I hadn't used my upper range since I was a child...
...turn Lonnie into a lethal hot property. Decking the punk in a skeleton suit and dubbing him "the Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee with Miss America. Christine Baranski zeroes in on this character's vacuous dedication and chews her words like stale gum. Griffin Dunne has a sensitive trigger finger on his role throughout...