Word: patronizer
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...simpler than its flashbacks and interrupted narrative make it out to be. Just a bit. Thomas (Don McKellar) is a gay petstore owner who makes ends meet by smuggling exotic pets into Canada for private collectors. Francis (Bruce Greenwood) is a smug tax auditor by day, a patron of Exotica, a table dancing club, by night...
...city definitely has a role in protecting its residents from such hazards. It also has a role in ensuring quality working conditions. The average patron need only endure the smoke for a meal, but a server endures it all day. City officials report emotional pleas from restaurant workers to limit smoking in restaurants. Smokers should certainly be allowed to smoke if they wish, so long as it does not endanger the health of people around them...
Baal is not an arm-chair-quarterback god: wecould hold him responsible for our successes andfailures. Much like household patron saints inseveral South American cultures, idols of Baalcould be physically punished when times take aturn for the worse. Putting Baal out in the coldMassachusetts winter a few times a week shouldkeep him in line. No second-round interview withMcKinsey? Feed him spanikopita turnovers,compliments of Harvard Dining Services. Bad newsfrom Harvard Law School? Throw the bastard in asnow bank. 'No distinction' on your thesis? Pitchhim off Weeks foot bridge...
Creative writing programs came into being to support a burgeoning coterie of talented writers who could not all make it in the cut-throat world of word-production. The university has become the de facto patron of the fine arts for a new generation of writers and poets. The situation is first and foremost a sad one--sad, because some of our best writers have to teach courses in creative writing in order to make ends meet...
...regular patron, a retired fence company proprietor, says he frequents the bar because he feels comfortable there...