Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject of some truly wild speculation. "The list of candidates," says Rocky Kolb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, "depends on whether or not you believe in a WYSIWYG universe." WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get" (dark-matter aficionados are inordinately fond of acronyms). WYSIWYG types like to assume that dark matter is most likely made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic than planet-like objects that are bigger than Jupiter...
TEAM SPIRIT IN THE CLINTON CAMP IS SHOWING STRAINS AS the key players jockey for positions in Washington. DEE DEE MYERS had been mentioned for press secretary, but insiders say that George Stephanopoulos has become very fond of TV exposure and the mountains of fan mail he attracts. And what about Paul Begala and Mark Gearan? Transition Central has really cleared things up by telling all four that they will be part of Clinton's Office of the President. Staff members have been sniping that Myers "doesn't look the part of a White House press secretary." Translation...
...movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond of slo-mo shots and swooping cameras; instead of a hard-edge portrait, we get painting on velvet. It's epic-style vamping around the void of epic character...
...vacuum created by the Governor's lack of activity in the early days of the transition had created a number of not fully favorable stories. "Bruce isn't satisfied if the Governor just hits the ball out of the park," George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's communications director, is fond of saying. "That ball has to go out of the park, over the river and through an apartment window...
...colleague Professor Harvey Mansfield is also fond of grinding an ideological ax vis-a-vis Women's Studies and Afro-American Studies...