Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ragtag overalls. These days, though, Arsenio appears to be taking few fashion risks. During a recent tuxedo fitting at Los Angeles' posh JonValdi clothier, the 40-year-old comic was accompanied by a personal stylist, Julie Mijares, who had dressed him that evening in the loose-fitting jeans and Hush Puppies he was wearing. "I just like whatever she tells me to like," Arsenio happily confessed. At that moment Julie was trying to get him to like some peg-legged tux trousers and a pair of clunky Prada loafers to match. "I don't know," Arsenio hesitated. "Won't this...
...mystery. Next, at the suggestion of a Democratic fund raiser, the Los Angeles Airport Commission paid him $8,250 a month to lobby the Transportation Department. These were lucky breaks for a lawyer facing possible criminal charges. Republicans have wondered aloud whether these jobs were part of a "hush-money" campaign directed by the White House to keep Hubbell happy and dissuade him from telling investigators what he knows about the Whitewater affair. Now it seems that independent counsel Kenneth Starr wonders the same thing...
...lean in close, conspiratorially, Sonia Ho may just let slip a secret she keeps about her son David. She will speak in a hush, as if to elude some spy's eavesdropping from behind the potted palm. But she badly wants to divulge her information. Thus, slightly abashed but nonetheless proud, she will confide, "He's kind of a genius, you know. I'm not supposed to say that, but it's true...
...with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting a long prison sentence for extortion. He suspects everyone: Bosnians out for vengeance, NATO forces who he fears will deliver him to the Hague, Serb secret police determined to hush him up. "There are so many refugees, agents, spies," he says. "I'm just an easy target...
...Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird don't sing, Papa's gonna buy you...Oh, I don't know...Europe?" --Bill Gates' lullaby to his new daughter, as imagined by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield, in USA Today...