Word: coating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There I was standing in the lobby of my chic Latin Quarter hotel, in my handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stuart scarf, when this French couple comes up to me and asks whether I'm their cab driver. I was polite, I just said no. At the time I was angry, but thinking about it later, I was furious. Those guys just weren't seeing...
...shoplifters tell a different story. One senior male says he has purloined "about 80 CDs, 20 to 100 books, T-shirts--those white underwear T-shirts--notebooks, candy bars, posters, blank tapes." Audacity, he claims, is the best disguise. "I never slipped anything [under] my coat," he says. "I just walked straight out of the building...I would never try to be covert...
...life without the possibility of parole if he committed a third, federal crime following two previous state convictions. As currently written, three strikes could work like this: a mugger shoves a woman while snatching her purse; strike one. The same criminal stiff-arms a store clerk while swiping a coat; strike two. Twenty years later (there are no intervals in either proposal), the same person punches a federal official, or assaults someone in a national park; strike three. The U.S. Sentencing Commission estimates that at most, only 690 federal prisoners a year would be in for life if "three strikes...
...what exactly does Clinton favor? Does he really want to sweep up the purse snatchers and coat thieves? No one knows for sure. A few hours before last Tuesday's speech, Vice President Gore said, "We'll let Congress decide." Minutes later, presidential counselor David Gergen admitted, "We don't even know what the different congressional ideas call for." The day after Clinton's address, White House press secretary Dee Dee Meyers echoed Gore and Gergen; she didn't know what was on the table, only that the White House wasn't going to get involved. "Actually," insists Reed, disagreeing...
...Richardson, whose gorgeous, frazzled perkiness suggests a cheerleader on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The great turn, through, is from Wright, who plays a tough, often sullen kid -- precariously poised between acting and acting up. On location, setting up a shot where the five- year-old wore a coat, Brooks told her, "This is a magic coat, Whittni. There's great acting in it." And he was right...