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Disney CEO Eisner, who's actually underrated as a pop-culture maven (he was responsible for Happy Days and Welcome Back, Kotter ), insists that ABC's downturn is cyclical and that it will soon return to life.
Uncowed by the posturing and brinkmanship attributed to both sides, Albright quickly switched gears, from passive envoy to diplomacy maven.
I'm indebted to Republican political maven Rich Galen and his e-mail newsletter "Mullings" for putting the Hillary interview in its proper context: It's the media's "August story," an overhyped journalistic frenzy designed to cover the fact that when the shrinks go on vacation, there is virtually no real news.
For the Shakespeare maven, this one-volume lexicon could become habit-forming.
Like clockword--I mean clockwork , of course--Bill Safire's books come down the pike, each inscribed with a friendly greeting from the man described as “the language maven.”