Word: beards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eating my Clown Cookies which are really good for clowns, in walked a Clown psychologist. Clown psychologists always walk in, never out. He had a beard, spoke with an accent, and asked me questions about my Mother and Bananas. And while I really like Bananas because they are yellow and slippery, I didn't understand the Clown psychologist...
ROGER & ME. In this impish documentary about auto layoffs in Flint, Mich., filmmaker Michael Moore comes across as a Garrison Keillor with a movie camera. And a mission: to beard General Motors Chairman Roger Smith. The picture is sharp and funny. But did Moore have to make his adversaries look so stupid so he could look smart...
...said greed is good; so did Ivan Boesky, the dapper king of arbitrage, before he ended up going to prison (Gekko presumably landed there too). And the close of the decade was symbolized by Boesky not just going to prison but also emerging on leave in a long white beard that made him look like some reincarnation of the Ancient Mariner or King Lear...
...Boesky made millions with investors' money. The inside trader paid a record $100 million to settle civil charges for his high jinks and later was sentenced to three years in a federal prison. When he was recently released on a furlough, he emerged sporting a ragged Howard Hughes- style beard...