Word: fawning
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...League. As two college students in a gaggle of high-school seniors and their parents practically beside themselves in the "Is this the right place?" soul searching, it was a chance to go incognito and try to remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must have read like a field study: "Harvard student. Stubbly...
...were a speech writer for President Bush. Did you know Fawn Hall...
...Frank Lentricchia (author of Introducing Don DeLillo), a man who has built a career out of explicating DeLillo. It's a telling gesture: the vast majority of the press for Valparaiso has centered not around the play and what it means but the author himself. Newspapers and magazines fawn over the man, congratulating themselves on snagging interviews with him. DeLillo's reclusiveness overshadows his work, creating a scenario almost as ridiculous as that of his play...
Rock stars and child stars getting busted for drugs: this is not unusual. But, gee whiz, little buddy, you too? BOB DENVER, enshrined in the psyches of a generation of TV watchers as the emblem of clownish naivete, a fawn facing down the elements on an uncharted desert isle with nothing but innocence...well, you get the picture. Gilligan got busted for weed possession. The narcs caught Denver after he signed for a package containing about 25 grams of marijuana sent to him mail order, and officers searched his home, finding more marijuana and "marijuana paraphernalia." Sounds more like...
...hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip," says John Moscow of the Manhattan district attorney's office. Like all good lawyers, Cacheris knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris is also a natural in the courtroom, "a maestro," as a fellow lawyer puts it, who cross-examines with laserlike...