Word: wisher
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...fatigued, she never betrays it. An eager, insistent clot of people pushes toward her, and somehow she manages to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless surge of elated surprise on her part: Oh, it's you! You're the one I've been most hoping to see, and how wonderful that we share that secret knowledge! To achieve this effect, Winslet must appear, at every minute, to be not only the most interesting person in the room but also the most interested. This is not easy, and she does it very...
...smiling and waving at the Marine One chopper, knowing that they'd be getting some family time over the long weekend. The First Lady, Laura Bush, brought her mother, Jenna Welch, back from Texas this week for the festivities, and the President previewed the guest list for a well-wisher he stopped to chat with during a recent trip to Missouri...
...Since I am an Hispanist (I have been so called by the Spanish daily, La Prensa, for my activities as a sympathizer and well-wisher of the Spanish-speaking nations of the world), any article relating to Spanish-speaking peoples interests me particularly and it is one of my hobbies to correct any erroneous conceptions formed of the aforesaid peoples and their countries. If Mr. Bleecker will observe more closely my letter, he will notice that I attached more importance to explaining about the Basque country than I did to Paolino's nationality. This statement answers, I trust, the question...
...against world-famous architects like Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to design the museum's $425 million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, "Who?" So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting "Tony Gucci," a nonexistent Italian architect...
Taniguchi was a surprise selection to design the new MOMA. Although the architect has a number of choice projects to his credit in Japan, including eight museums, the man is so little known in the U.S. that one baffled well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version...