Word: bustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know your party's a bust when the biggest celebrity in attendance is the lawyer who helped you beat a child-molestation rap. Michael Jackson held parties on both coasts, in Los Angeles and New York City, to celebrate the June 20 release of HIStory, Past, Present & Future-Book I, his new, epic, hubristic double CD. Both affairs were surprisingly luminary free; even Jackson skipped them. However, Johnnie Cochran, the savvy superlawyer who helped get the child-sex-abuse charges against Jackson settled out of court and who is now defending O.J. Simpson, did show up at the L.A. function...
Since the bust-up of the MCA deal is a Hollywood story, it must also be about relationships. It was about Ovitz's friendship with Bronfman, which was tested by Ovitz's demands for more money and power. It was about the family atmosphere, nurturing and disciplined, in which the lords of CAA raise their younger employees. It was also about the agency's awesome client roster: the Costners and Cruises, Redfords and Streisands, Keanus and Winonas, Spielbergs and Zemeckises. These are people who don't like to feel deserted by their 10-percenters...
...police were coming, Crimson president Jim Fallows '70 and I dashed out of University Hall to get an extra edition of the paper ready, and so I can't recount any first-hand stories of dodging Somerville police who'd been waiting for years for their chance to bust some heads of long-haired anti-war creeps who were Harvard students to boot...
...Bust had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of SDS. It seemed like everyone in Cambridge was shouting "strike, strike" until they were hoarse. It felt like the dawn of our own French Revolution...
...apocalyptic air of the days following the Bust is easy to recall, but hard to describe. Red fists and quotations from Mao, Che and more obscure revolutionaries blossomed everywhere--on banners, posters and T-shirts...