Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in Dallas, Garoon says he was privileged to watch what he calls "one of the best sports tandems in the business"--television commentators Dale Hansen and Brad Shams. He says most of his fellow Harvard sportscasters have similarly fond memories of their local sportscasters. "A lot of people come from the big cities--New York, Chicago, and the like--where they have really talented sports teams...
...adore you. I feel an intense adulation for you. I am affectionate toward you. I am extremely attached to you. I cherish you, and dote on you. In fact, I am devoted to you. I fancy you. I am quite fond of you. I am infatuated with you. I feel very passionately about you. I idolize and worship you. I relish and savor you. I take great pleasure in you. I will always treasure you. You are my best friend. I like you. In other words, I don't love you. If I did I would have said...
Twersky's name reminded me of conversations with friends at other schools who had read his work and had asked if I had met him, and of the fond words my Hebrew professor had used to describe him. I had never met him. My plan to search him out in office hours went by the way-side, like my unfulfilled pledges to exercise at the Malkin Athletic Center and do the New York Times crossword regularly...
...enthusiastic about Tony Blair's plans to create a youthful and stylish New Britain, where people are less formal and more willing to express their emotions. I've always been fond of the stodgy and overly formal Old Britain, where people don't have any emotions to express...
...performer's vices," says a former SNL writer who was fond of Farley. "He was always on." Adulation helped ease that anxiety, but that drug was of limited efficacy. Says friend and former SNL cast member Rob Schneider: "If you need love from everybody, it feels good, but eventually the nightclub audiences go home, eventually the TV shows are over and the movies end, and you've got to live with yourself." Schneider adds, "Everybody loved him, but ultimately that wasn't enough, because he didn't love himself...