Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House Correspondents Association's annual dinner the previous weekend, bombed with jokes about Senate minority leader Robert Dole and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh that turned out not to be funny. The dinners are one of the few times that the permanent Washington establishment is primed to fawn over the President. But the range of acceptable presidential behavior is narrow, from self-deprecation to groveling, and by no means can the evening be used to settle scores -- even with the person who killed your stimulus package. The dinner produced three days of apologies and retractions and gave Dole...
Many critics agree that Shakespeare was a fine playwright. Of his plays, many of the same critics praise Hamlet in particular. But this megahit does feature two flat characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who appear, fawn sycophantically over everything that moves, and then disappear, apparently to die horribly for no particular reason...
Wallace-Crabbe also uses color as a motif to vividly paint a picture of the Australian vista. He noted that even when he is not describing nature, Australia's rich colors--red, gold, ochre, fawn--make their way into his poetry...
...have hit the scandal triple crown. Senator Don Riegle is advised by Tom Green, who represented retired Major General Richard Secord after Iran-contra and White House aide Robert Mardian during Watergate. Lawyer Plato Cacheris, who worked for both Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell and Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall, is at the side of Gwendolyn Van Paaschen, an aide to Senator John McCain...
...fantasies, the wife, played by the ever splendid Stockard Channing, vacillates between compassion and revulsion. And the encounter devastatingly sketches the uneasy state of U.S. race relations, in which white liberals may endorse the black cause in theory, yet not know any blacks socially and thus fawn on or patronize them. When the intruder starts to analyze The Catcher in the Rye in scholarly jargon, the hosts are spellbound by his vocabulary and miss the fact that his rap becomes comic nonsense...