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...brought up again, his tissue samples were assailed with neutrons, and the forensic conclusion was that he had not been poisoned after all. Scientists were disappointed. But historians guessed rightly that a glass of buttermilk without arsenic is enough to kill anybody, much less when it's a chaser to a bowl of cherries, which, as history has indicated, life is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIG, MUST WE? | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, ambulance chaser? That's how it appeared to families of ValuJet crash victims who received packages from the law firm of Coale & Van Susteren offering to represent them in return for 25% of any money the airline awards them. At least one package contained a picture and biography of Van Susteren, now a co-anchor on the CNN program Burden of Proof. While sending unsolicited offers isn't illegal, it is kind of cheesy, especially since the couple's firm has already been censured for soliciting clients in West Virginia. But John Coale pleads not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...Wait exactly one minute, then chug the drink. A red wine chaser is suggested, though not required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Beckett is eventually fired from the firm on the pretext of incompetence, and engages Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), a charismatic ambulance-chaser, to claim wrongful dismissal on his behalf. Miller is staunchly homophobic, and it is only when he sees first-hand the discrimination which Andrew faces in a law library that Miller can sympathize and agree to represent him. In the process, Miller carefully reconciles his own loathing of homosexuals with his clear feeling that the law was broken when Andrew was fired. Miller grows realistically, not Hollywood-miraculously, never completely reversing his views but admiring Andrew and having...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Philadelphia Story for Our Time | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...been keepin' us both awake all night") or wail like good ole boys stranded at the altar ("She's gettin' a rock/ And I'm gettin' stoned,/ She's tyin' the knot/ And I'm tyin' one on"). This is 90- proof vox-pop poetry, with a rhythm-guitar chaser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 22, 1993 | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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