Word: starstruck
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Some professors entertain cold chairs during office hours and make do without starstruck students gossiping about them in Annenberg. Some, like Ferguson, contend with a different beast of visibility. And though the three discussed here—Niall Ferguson, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Robert A. Lue—are all accomplished, impressive individuals, each of them has a different method of managing his fame...
...deducting his wristwatch and bicycle as expenses in his newspaper-delivery business. And there is the Buffett who desperately craves attention and gets excited when a porn star says on her website that he's her hero. Buffett, Schroeder writes, is "at heart nothing more than a starstruck little kid, endearingly clueless in many ways about his place in the pantheon...
...less than Henry James, Allen is judgmental of Americans abroad - they betray a sexual naïveté when exposed to a society so much more practiced in the art of gracious loving. And no less than Vicky and Cristina, Allen is almost starstruck by the Spaniards, and the Mediterranean ease in forming, then releasing, sexual liaisons. The hallmark of his characters is the fumbling confession of furtive love; but in this idealized Catalonia, where nothing romantic is forbidden, everything is beautiful, as natural as breathing in synch with the woman who has fallen asleep in your arms...
...some defiance, some insistence that the E.U. really matters. "Ten years ago, Africans had an American Dream," says one E.U. development worker. "Now they want to live in Europe. They see the power of our aid, our tolerance and our openness." But Europe's voters aren't so starstruck. To the contrary, the view of Brussels as a dream-addled dictatorship ? is sometimes fostered by national politicians and the press. "The E.U. is so often depicted as its extremes," says Margot Wallstrom, who in 2004 became the E.U.'s first Commissioner of Institutional Relations and Communications. "Either...
...work at TIME magazine. Standing near the pastry table at 8:30 a.m., I looked up to see Thomas, 50, descending the stairwell like someone who could still sell a lot of posters. "O.K.! We're starting!" she screamed, followed by "Sorry, I yelled in your ear." A bit starstruck, I may have awkwardly responded, "I kind of liked it." To which she said, "Some people do." I don't understand why some people prefer Heather Locklear...