Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the first, Los Angeles police suspected that Synanon members were responsible for the attack on Morantz, who had won, for a client, a $300,000 lawsuit against the 900-member group. Synanon, founded by Dederich 20 years ago as a rehabilitation organization for alcoholics and drug addicts, had done worthy work, but in recent years had become a capriciously governed and toughly disciplined cult. Soon after the snake attack, police arrested two suspects: Synanon Members Joseph Musico, 28, and Lance Kenton, 20, the son of Bandleader Stan Kenton. Synanon has steadfastly maintained that it "had no involvement...
Moscow's new client presents it with problems as well as opportunities...
...gallery in New York in 1939 specializing in German and Austrian expressionism. He became best known, however, for presenting the works of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident who did not start painting seriously until age 76. "I may be prejudiced," Kallir once said of his client, who died at age 101 in 1961, "but . . . history will declare her work the finest example of folk painting ever produced...
...American detective represents a rich, impatient New York client who is paying a lot of money to locate his vanished, overfed son, believed to be in Paris. Cage and the City of Light are getting along fine until he gets involved in the misfortunes of a 6-ft. 7-in. black basketball star, Roscoe Hadley, known as "Adlay" to his Gallic worshipers. Cage winds up representing Adlay without fee against sundry real and imagined threats on his life from Paris to Amsterdam and some mob intervention from California. Nonmonetary compensation comes from a sexy Anglo-Parisienne who outsmarts just about...
...quarters, use of a car and country club privileges in addition to their pay. In many urban areas, homeowners resort to maid sharing, maid stealing and other unorthodox means of getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case. "I never know whether she's going to show up or not," admits the wife. "Still, I'm lucky to have her. If I tell her she's not reliable, she'll just...