Word: hanger-on
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...Harvard hanger-on in general," says Tucker, continuing with a famous tale about George. One year, he attended a law firm's recruitment session at the Law School, raising his hand during the question-and-answer period to ask, "How big are the offices at your firm...
Attempting to portray Shipp as a hanger-on and frustrated actor with a drinking problem, attorney Carl Douglas accused the witness of betraying his old friend to get publicity. ``Do you realize, Mr. Shipp,'' demanded Douglas, ``that by testifying as you have, you are going to enhance the name of Ron Shipp around the world...
...Whoever's doing what they want is cool." -- Sofia Coppola, actress, fashion-world hanger...
...fact, of course, all those were Limbaugh. Such antics constitute a rather small part of his shtick (rather than a majority, as with Stern, who goes much further than Limbaugh would ever dream of, playing "Butt Bongo" and regularly sending out a stuttering hanger-on to ask celebrities rude questions). But it is a good part of what makes Limbaugh so much more successful than more ordinary conservative radio personalities -- indeed, what makes him the most popular broadcast commentator of the age, maybe ever. "I look at this," Limbaugh has said repeatedly, "as entertainment...
...simply remained himself, an Italian American who had grown up in New Jersey around neighborhoods where mobsters lived. He had a sense of their behavior and values. "I knew how to act natural so no alarms would go off," he says. So natural, in fact, that as a Mob hanger-on, he got close to Mafia Soldier Lefty Ruggiero, a neurotic worrier, chronically short of cash, who became Pistone's mentor in check-cashing scams and drug and gambling deals. Pistone also "felt a kind of kinship" with Dominick ("Sonny Black") Napolitano, a killer who kept pigeons on the roof...