Word: ginsburg
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Perhaps the biggest wild card of the evening was William Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky's former attorney, who had flown in from the Coast. He came on third, after complaining before the show that he was in trial and hadn't worked on his act. Well, whatever else he picked up in Washington, he learned the expectations game. True, most of his jokes were chestnuts he no doubt hoarded from ABA conventions, but he effectively tailored them to the event. "What's the difference between a catfish and Ken Starr?" he asked. "One is a bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking scavenger...
...Pins up poster of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in crew quarters...
...President lashed back at the out-of-control prosecutor on Monday night, the lay minister who prides himself on his composure was suddenly out of control. Hatch appeared on five networks in an hour, breaking the previous indoor record for Consecutive Appearances in a Single Day, held by William Ginsburg. The screen went dark in the Map Room, and almost immediately there was Hatch on NBC threatening, "I'm just going to blow my stack" if he hears another word against Starr. His stack gone, he moved over to CNN, where he threatened to blow his "cork" if the phrase...
...scandal. The last scandal I enjoyed without qualification was the one triggered by the revelation that a writer named Clifford Irving was about to publish a book based on extensive interviews with Howard Hughes--a moneybags so maniacally reclusive that he made Thomas Pynchon seem like William Ginsburg. Irving, of course, had dreamed it all up, presumably figuring that a man reclusive enough to make his words particularly valuable would be too reclusive to blow the whistle...
...Martin who pushed hardest to sack Monica's acid-tongued malpractice lawyer, William Ginsburg, replacing him with Washington smoothies Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein, who had the trust of Ken Starr. But the family set one prerequisite for the new duo: Martin must sign off on each decision. So when Stein and Cacheris landed a nothing-to-lose offer from prosecutors to meet with Monica, the Lewinskys cleared it with their lesser-known lawyer. When prosecutors offered blanket immunity, Martin was again asked for his blessing. He credits Cacheris and Stein with the breakthrough: "You had to get them...