Word: beasting
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...especially ravenous beast if the allegations are true. Forensic auditors estimate that Skehan and later Guinan misappropriated $8.6 million over 42 years. They allegedly diverted St. Vincent collection money to secret slush-fund accounts while living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes. The police report says Skehan, 79, gave a "girlfriend" $134,000, made a rare-coins purchase for $275,000 and owned an oceanfront condominium worth $455,000. It says Guinan, 63, whom Barbarito removed as St. Vincent's pastor in 2005, spent his take on expensive vacations to Las Vegas and the Bahamas; a $220,000 renovation...
...mean, where's the charm? There's no suggestion of the charismatic creepiness of Hopkins' Lecter - that mysterious, chatty, seductive beast so beguiling you'd immediately invite him to dinner. (But don't let him serve you.) The movie lays out the reasons this boy became that man, but without establishing a connection between the two, in looks or personality...
...theories—claiming, for example, that the Beatles were British-trained soldiers used for psychological warfare. Despite his homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic statements, he runs regularly for President as a Democrat (much to party leaders’ annoyance) and believes Dick Cheney (or the “beast-man,” as he calls him) and Lynne Cheney to be the real powers behind the Bush administration...
...York City. He will have a lawyer with an imposing 6-ft. 5-in. frame and a high-profile list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought to have worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet invasion...
...taming of Yahoo!'s many-headed beast echoes the task Semel took on after arriving in 2001. He trimmed the 44 business units to four, and the company rededicated itself to search by developing a new engine and buying Overture, which pioneered search ads. Yahoo!'s stock price nearly tripled in Semel's first three years, but its search tools still trailed Google...