Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where the New Kids reign...
...bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she was never quite so leathery as she appeared. Robinson's final chapters suggest a Tennessee Williams scenario, with an old woman smitten and exploited by her handsome protege, ceramist Juan Hamilton. Over the family's protests, Hamilton manipulated the painter's affairs until her death in 1986. He was eventually awarded 24 paintings and her house...
...rainy Budapest, beneath the huge statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungary's greatest figure of independence, the President bounded down from the stage after brief remarks, stripped off his borrowed raincoat and wrapped it around a soaked, startled and utterly smitten old woman, who had to fend off other onlookers grabbing for her new prize...
Whenever the world's molecules reorganize themselves, of course, someone announces a new reality -- "All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born," in W.B. Yeats' smitten lines about the Irish rebellion of Easter 1916. Seventy-three years later, the Irish troubles proceed, dreary, never beautiful -- an eczema of violence in the margins...
...roots of this catastrophe can be traced to the moment that Robeson fell in love. The affection was not for his forbearing wife Essie, or for Peggy Ashcroft or Uta Hagen, or for any of the other strong-willed women with whom he had affairs. Robeson was smitten with the Soviet Union. During a 1934 visit, the singer proclaimed that in the U.S.S.R. he felt "like a human being for the first time since I grew...