Word: patronize
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...most interesting thing to happen came at the end, when the audience in the crowded theater booed. It's a boring film, and I can only echo what a patron at my showing said (once the booing stopped): "Now we know why it took only eight days to make." PEYTON HIGGISON Brunswick, Maine...
...party, was not having much fun. In his speech he never mentioned Ventura. And he and Gargan, once friendly, haven't spoken in years. Gargan intends to move party headquarters away from Perot's home roost of Dallas to Gargan's nest in Florida's Cedar Key. He and patron Ventura made clear they're not interested in a third Perot run for the presidency. "We are going in a whole new direction," Gargan said...
...life has been more guarded than her brother's was, it is far from cloistered. Her mother was more glamorous and socially adroit, but Caroline shares Jackie's cultivated charm and has steadily expanded her own profile as a patron of culture and the arts. And though not driven to politics as were J.F.K. and his brothers, she has nonetheless compiled a ledger of quiet but diligent service to the public, and to her father's legacy, that reflects a commitment to civic life and a belief in the value of rigorous, reflective debate. "She has a strong sense...
...best way to get John to do something," said a Kennedy staff member, "was to get Caroline to ask him." At one of their last appearances together, a dinner at the Kennedy Library for J.F.K.'s birthday, a library patron was struck by how happy the two children and their spouses were taking up where Jackie left off. "At the end of dinner, Carolyn was sitting on John's lap. And there were Ed and Caroline, leaning into each other, catching each other's eyes...
Diana was a sacrificial symbol in several ways. First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, the discriminated against, the homeless. Then, partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked...