Word: hanger-on
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...Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and death—whose frame is the journal of the Mexican poet Juan García Madero. Madero is the disciple, devotee and faithful hanger-on of two older poets, Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego throughout his fiction) and Ulises Lima, who follows the pair through the Sonora Desert in flight from a violent pimp and his henchmen. The intervening chapters of the novel’s larger arc outline...
...rare exception is the well-stocked Harvard Book Store, a delightful hanger-on with guest speakers far more interesting and engaging than the drones one so often finds at the Institute of Politics or elsewhere on campus...
...Hanger-On: By a thread, that is. Sometimes at odds with other members of the group, The Hanger-On will be unceremoniously voted off by the other group members if she so much as blinks at someone the wrong way. Just give them a reason. She is a favorite target of The Manipulator, who often aims to remove her in order to make space for The Waffler...
This HBO sitcom, which starts its second season on June 5, follows newly minted Hollywood heartthrob Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), the support staff that works for (and sometimes against) him, and his three hanger-on buddies. Come for the good-natured insider humor. Stay for Jeremy Piven as Vince's quotably bad-natured agent...
Streaking behind the Brown defense, Cavanagh shook his own defender leaving him 2-1 with Pettit and his hanger-on. But rather than take his own open shot, the Crimson playmaker beamed a pass through the narrowest of seams, between Danis and his lone defender. And onto Pettit’s tape. 3-1 Harvard...