Word: protegee
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Despite all of Judy's domestic doting, Henri soon follows the behavioral pattern of every male in Private Benjamin, beginning with Judy's nebbishy, over-sexed bridegroom who seems like a nice enough guy until, in the middle of their gala wedding reception, he drags her outside and begs for...
For an essentially linear plot, this one seems to require an excess of exposition, and the film lacks both snappy comic writing and truly suspenseful action. Beatty aside, the minor characters are not developed with much flair. Sam Waterston, as a onetime Matthau protege in the agency now forced to...
While Cook County has filed suit in court challenging the preliminary census figures, city officials have begun checking the count on their own. Said Alderman Roman Pucinski, a protege of Daley's political machine, which used to be accused of casting votes for Chicagoans whether dead or alive: "The...
When the huge, almost grotesquely muscular men file into the room behind the stage of Olympiisky Stadium, they cannot help but steal a glance at the closed curtains of cubicle No. 17. There, in the corner of the vast hall, Alexeyev rests, stretched out on a bed, all 6 ft...
Humphrey had a lot of time on his hands to help the freshman senator after the election in late 1964, and Mondale lacked identity independent of Humphrey for several years. As Humphrey's protege, he felt he could not criticize Johnson's war policies, and he later regretted it. For...