Word: big-shot
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Take the current year, for example. Shannon's Deal, the Sayles-conceived television series about a former big-shot lawyer and high-stakes gambler trying to start his life over, completed its second season on NBC. Though its modest ratings were not enough to get it renewed for next fall, it won critical hosannas and enjoyed a strong cult following. Los Gusanos, his novel chronicling decades of personal and political intrigues in Miami's Cuban-exile community, came out in June to warm reviews. City of Hope, his movie about race and politics in a decaying industrial town...
...big-shot politicians in Washington giving you a hard time about enforcing the drinking age? Hey, all these guys want is a piece of the actions. And if that don't work, you lean on them. Hard. Believe me, when I'm Harvard president kegs will flow in the Yard, laws or no laws...
...Captain Christina Dragomirescu, senior Niki Rival, junior Amy deLone and sophomore Jennifer Minkus will be the top returning Harvard players who must live up to the squad's big-shot reputation earned after last spring's solid 15-11 season when the Crimson finished tied for first in the Ivy League...
...Captain Christina Dragomirescu, senior Niki Rival, junior Amy deLone and sophomore Jennifer Minkus will be the top returning Harvard players who must live up to the squad's big-shot reputation earned after last spring's solid 15-11 season when the Crimson finished tied for first in the Ivy League...
Even the English department, which is often considered second-rate in comparison to fortresses of modern literary theory like Yale and Berkeley, boasts its share of big-shot names...