Word: dilbeck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing to do with religion. It has to do with hate," said Jeremy Dilbeck, a student at the Kennedy School of Government, who argued with the protesters gathered on Memorial Drive...
Erin comes across as too earnest, too demure and too tragically trapped to belong in a caper novel. But still you want to laugh and cheer when the plucky stripper finally gets the upper hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...
...South Florida Congressman named Dave Dilbeck, who poses as a pious church deacon but whose spiritual urges send him on pilgrimages to bottomless, table-dancing strip bars. When told that he almost killed a man with a champagne bottle, a contrite Dilbeck asks, "Democrat or Republican...
...Malcolm J. Moldowsky -- a political fixer and Dilbeck's bagman from the sugar lobby -- who worships the sainted memory of John Mitchell. "A dear friend and mentor," says Moldowsky of the former Attorney General and Watergate conspirator. "Savagely maligned...
...Tease revolves around FBI secretary turned exotic dancer Erin Grant, who is working at the Eager Beaver to pay her legal fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky Congressman on a bender...