Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usually, celebrities go to court to defend their name. But CARROLL O'CONNOR went because songwriter Harry Perzigian claimed the actor was doing some slandering of his own. After his cocaine-addicted son Hugh shot himself, O'Connor went on a campaign against drug dealers. Perzigian, who spent a year in jail for supplying cocaine to his friend Hugh, sued O'Connor for saying such things about him on TV as "He's a partner in murder, not an accessory." But the jury sided with O'Connor. "It shows L.A. loves celebrities," said Perzigian. Or maybe the city just doesn...
...control of the House in 1994, he chose the New York Congressman to run the committee that holds the G.O.P.'s campaign purse strings. When ethics allegations threatened to cost the Speaker his post, he put Paxon in charge of his re-election. And whenever Newt needed someone to defend him on television, Paxon was willing to aim his happy, preppy face toward the camera. Last Tuesday, as Gingrich touted G.O.P. tax cuts under a sweltering sun, Paxon even gazed at him with the kind of adoring smile Nancy Reagan used to bestow on her husband...
...only constituency that mattered: Allen. Last April after Walter, not Allen, got the call from SBC's chairman proposing merger talks, Allen escalated his criticism, telling AT&T directors that Walter didn't grasp the complexities of the telecom business. By the time Walter faced the board to defend himself, its decision had been made...
...over country to be seen in a deeper perspective. We actually are the backbone of America. East Coast intellectuals, West Coast moralists, self-promoting Beltway politicians and media liberals usually see us only as a source of funding for social programs. However, whether it's taking up arms to defend our nation, starting businesses that provide employment and expansion, or inventing things that make our lives better, in the main it is we along the backbone who do it. LARRY M. HEWIN Williamsburg...
...haircut, and he knew it: he once said he was the only person whose hair had been improved by chemotherapy. He could seem self-absorbed, but in fact he loved being a mentor. Two years ago, Arthur asked for my help in setting up an office to defend poor New Yorkers facing the death penalty, and I saw him at his finest, doing the civic lawyering he loved no less than his monumental dealmaking. Even as his illness advanced, the only thing that made him sad, I think, was the unfinished task of calling lawyers back to the ideals...