Word: client
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...about wise-guy women who talk themselves in and out of some fairly deadly predicaments. The better half of her new novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages; $25), carries on cheerfully with this agreeable storytelling. The main character, Lily White, is a 45-year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands...
...series of duels, the most conventional of which is between attorney White and a brassy, shrewd woman prosecutor who's sure she has the con man nailed for murder. White handles this courthouse skirmishing well enough but flounders when she tries to get a sense from her slippery client of what really happened. Although she is middle-aged, and maybe a bit lonely as well, White is too self-possessed to fall for this road-company Andy Griffith. Still, she does begin to think he may be innocent of murder. That impression grows when his girlfriend turns...
...history of working for both Democrats and Republicans--a career strategy that has made him a traitor in the eyes of people in both parties. He could work simultaneously for Jesse Helms and Mother Teresa and see no inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant who works with Morris on the Clinton media team, "is that Dick is a man of the sensible middle: a brilliant strategist, of course, but one driven by centrist ideas. He wants...
...movie revolves around not letting the list of Impossible Mission Force agents and their true identities fall into the wrong hands. It might be conjectured that the villainous, disgruntled middle-aged middle manager Jim Phelps goes after the list like someone leaving a corporation and taking the client names with him to start his own business. ROBERT SCAROLA Chicago...
...When a client hires the group, HIID sends staff members to the nation under study for an extended period, typically upwards of two years, during which time the researchers become intimately familiar with the country's economy, infrastructure, educational systems, health facilities, environmental state or any of dozens of potential areas of study...