Word: big-shot
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...problem too because these crimes are fast becoming the most egregious on Wall Street. The hot stock market is attracting con artists like ants to a picnic. In the bull market of the 1980s, big-shot investment bankers swapped secret merger information for suitcases stuffed with cash. Giuliani sent a couple of bankers to jail in his day. But many others walked. The result? Stocks still routinely shoot higher ahead of big merger news--a sure sign that the insider-trading problem is anything but licked...
While many students struggled to sit through their end-of-year classes last Thursday, seven undergraduates entertained big-shot Hollywood alumni and munched on strawberries and cream at the famous Beverly Wilshire Hotel...
...alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty if he can afford to retain one of them. And just as the hearing is a sneak preview...
Professor Catherine Clinton's objection to Camille Paglia's personal attacks on big-shot Harvard professors is off the mark...
Which was cool for Kennedy fils. If you think having a big-shot Harvard-educated daddy would help a kid get into Harvard today (and oh, it would, it would), suffice to say that in 1935, when the old-boy Brahmin network ruled the roost, when almost everyone who applied to Harvard was accepted anyway, Kennedy bloodlines rendered the application process somewhat unnecessary. A recommendation from Harry Hopkins, chairman of FDR's Federal Employment Relief Administration, probably didn't hurt JFK's chances much, either. He could get away with an application that, as Light said, "looks like he just...