Word: moonstruck
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...brand-new Brando emerged to pose for photographers in a green Tyrolean hat that suspiciously resembled a homburg, and he comported himself as if he were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date: the wild bells would now ring out some time this month...
...India, where kissing in public is taboo, the best one can do is depict a couple exchanging moonstruck gazes...
...dearest little Goody," "Best little Goodykin," "Dearest of all Jeannies," "Lovely Princess," "Lovekin." This is no moonstruck sophomore toasting epistolary marshmallows for his sweetie, but one of the finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...
...clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...
...bureau does not think that television addicts will ever get their favorite programs in the hinterland by aiming their antennae at the moon. The reflected signal is far too weak for standard television sets. Another trouble: the signal would be reflected from many places on the moon. So the moonstruck TV screen would show a tangle of ghosts, just as if the transmitter were surrounded by tall buildings. But messages by way of the. moon may become a dependable aid to long-distance communications by radiotelegraph and radiotelephone...