Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brustein's son, Daniel Brustein, says he has fond memories of times spent with his father during his childhood...
...arrives, an epiphany in which the adolescent boy realizes he is destined to write. After all, isn't the author of a memoir, especially if he's a distinguished author, supposed to explain how he came to set pen to paper in the first place? The young Coetzee, while fond of books and learning, does not seem particularly driven to his present vocation...
Memoirs of a Geisha is crammed with wonderful sentences; Golden's language is almost overwhelming. He is fond of verbal special effects, and his prose reads almost like a poet's at times Image follows metaphor, which follow conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...
Pittman, who helped build MTV from a low-budget cable channel into an empire of hair and attitude, believes in that consumerist approach. He's fond, for instance, of telling the story of the time when, as CEO of Six Flags, he spent time working as a street sweeper in pursuit of a broom's-eye-view of its New Jersey theme park. Pittman has an intense charm that makes him a natural for AOL's dichotomous culture, where V.P.s brag alternately about late nights and mountain-biking exploits. "I've spent my whole life building brands," he says...
That President Clinton sure does like hats: He wore at least seven different ones during his three-week vacation. Not since Eisenhower has a Commander been so fond of haberdashery. Thus far the White House has no gimme-cap room (Who would pay to stay there?), but if the past seven years are any indication, the best inedible gift to give Bill is a baseball cap with something manly printed on it. Above, some of the best hat moments of the Clinton presidency...