Word: cons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem too because these crimes are fast becoming the most egregious on Wall Street. The hot stock market is attracting con artists like ants to a picnic. In the bull market of the 1980s, big-shot investment bankers swapped secret merger information for suitcases stuffed with cash. Giuliani sent a couple of bankers to jail in his day. But many others walked. The result? Stocks still routinely shoot higher ahead of big merger news--a sure sign that the insider-trading problem is anything but licked...
...important damage from the polymorphous con jobs on political display this year is symbolic and atmospheric. Morris' train wreck last week, compounded by his ideological promiscuity, adds to the widespread public suspicion that it takes an unwholesome personality--a professional liar or a power fetishist--to go into politics in the first place.The conventional rules of hypocrisy have been modernized by the principles of television--life as a continuously temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right...
...show the world Republicans aren't scary Their speakers were like Susan Molinari, Who's ethnic as a garlic blintz con queso. And she's pro-choice, though she forgot to say so. Two blacks were at the mike, to great renown-- Which left not many blacks still sitting down. The Contract? They forgot it was their axis; They're just nice folks who want to cut your taxes. A scene inclusive as an ad for Gap, It could have caused a moderate to clap. She'd call her best friend on the phone and tell her, "They're nominating...
Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox), ghostbuster con-artist extraordinaire, has some kooky spirit friends and some naughty spirit enemies, most notably the Soul Collector himself. Also, there's lots of special effects--people passing through walls, ectoplasm accidents, anatomically unstable ghosts. People are dying, and Bannister, who is the only one who can see the ghosts and those marked for death, must find out why, with the help of special effects. He also has an Andie-MacDowell-lookalike friend, Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado), and, enhanced by special effects, things quickly go awry. In addition, the possibility of the existence...
This part of the novel is a 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...