Word: grovelling
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...Next stop: Melrose Avenue. To shop the trendy boutiques of Melrose with Molly Ringwald is to watch elegant saleswomen grovel. Having word get out that this young fashion plate buys from your shop is the rag-trade equivalent of hitting all six numbers in the California lottery. At Comme des Garcons, a tiny Frenchwoman behind the counter compliments Molly on her Paleolithic do and watches her try on a pair of suede lace-up granny shoes. $49, and out she strides, in her late-for-the-train gait, past two punked-out teens. "That was Molly Ringwald!" one insists...
...like a nightmarish rerun of the Iranian hostage drama, with a surreal twist. Once again American hostages were paraded before the cameras by their terrorist captors. Only this time they were not blindfolded, as the American embassy officials had been in Tehran, or made to grovel by bug-eyed radicals shouting "Death to America!" Rather, the prisoners, some unshaven, all uneasy, but combed and neat, were graciously ushered out to meet the press...
...This contract was really stark. The images portrayed of Republican and of our ACORN members curry over to real lives. The Republicans live high off the hog and we have to grovel in the dirt and scrape by ACORN people are the spirit of America--we are the wind blowing through the flaps of the flags and tents...
...voluntary and student initiated. Proponents argue that the law would give students who wish to meet for religious purposes the same rights as students who gather for other reasons. Says Californian John Stoos, a regional director of the American Life Lobby: "It's surprising that we had to grovel for the same rights already given to Communists, Nazis and chess clubs...
...only a few hundred of the 2,914 precincts, the primary should have ended the race. But this time the Democratic organization and its official candidate did not exactly hurry to embrace each other. Only half of the 50 ward committeemen endorsed Washington, who declared that he would not "grovel" for their support and pledged during the primary campaign to strip the machine of its muscle, city hall patronage. Park District Superintendent Edmund Kelly went so far as to endorse Republican Candidate Bernard Epton, 61, a millionaire lawyer who had some slim hope of profiting from the dissension to become...