Word: smitten
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...others, goes unremarked by the exhibitors. They busy themselves instead compiling identifications for each garment that list first the fabrics of the dress, then its owner. The designer or the house that made the dress is relegated to smaller type. That is fitting enough, perhaps, for a show so smitten with what used to be called society. Nostalgia may waft through these corridors like L'Heure Bleue, but it is based in longing not for a vanished elegance but for trammeled privilege and status cut on the bias. Remembrance of rank past...
...loses the part, and Michael, broke, decides to go for it. When, as Dorothy, he enters the strange subculture of the soaps, he must contend with such fine comic caricatures as a smooth, womanizing director (Dabney Coleman) and an aging ham actor (George Gaynes) who becomes so smitten with Dorothy that he ends up in the street beneath her window warbling, "I'll know when my love comes along." Then there is Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols, the soap opera's heroine...
Wall Street investors, who have been smitten by Kodak stock for the past two years, last week bid its price up to a six-year high of 93⅝ a share on the basis of an expected surge in the company's earnings from the full range of Kodak products. Said Brenda Landry, a photographic industry analyst for the Morgan Stanley & Co. investment banking firm: "Kodak is one great company. It is the one company that under a single corporate umbrella combines chemistry, optics and electronics...
...complex, believable, human beings--not the wit-spouting, blissed-out caricatures that have appealed to audiences for more than a century. The female chorus that sings the opening number--a song about their collective love for two gondoliers--is not the usual band of cheerful automotons: they are genuinely smitten, languishing distractedly about the stage and staring into the air. When the inevitable pairing off of male and female choruses takes place, it is no hand-holding affair--they behave the way we all know young couples in love behave in public...
...prodigious number of Americans have become smitten with cats. Others continue to bad-mouth felines. Are cats stouthearted companions or unresponsive curmudgeons? Or are they, as Cartoonist Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first...