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That story also runs on the Los Angeles Times front--where the lead is a California election story--but below the paper's survey of Monica Lewinsky's possible career moves (samples from various PR mavens: Go on Oprah, go on Barbara Walters, don't go on Howard Stern).
Sociologists, military analysts, computer mavens, other distinguished guests: At this point in our annual meeting, we pay tribute to some verbal form that spreads confusion wherever it appears.
The discussion on language and culture moved to the need for self-appointed "language mavens" such as William Safire.
Weather mavens don't understand why El Niño begins.
) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.