Word: roost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from enjoying the spectacle of lawyerly litigiousness gone wild. Tribe is being sued by Lightning Lube, the company which he represented in a suit that contested the verdict against the company in a suit against it. It looks like chickens (or in this case, sharks) have come home to roost. And sharks cannabalism is such a rare thing that when it happens, all the rest of the fish in the sea can't help gathering to savor the spectacle...
...later. So Wynn, a child his mother describes as precocious and sometimes devilish, was not just an ordinary firstborn: he was a sacred child. Meanwhile his father, Michael, was often away from their home in Utica, New York, supervising bingo parlors he owned in three states. "Steve ruled the roost," says Wynn's wife Elaine. "Mike was not home, meaning that there was no paternal supervision. Zelma was a pussycat. She didn't have the -- I don't want to say the knowledge or instincts -- but maybe not the patience to deal with Steve...
...Work on the music and let the image take care of itself. With his new album, the cure is in hand. My World offers 10 songs, some tonic sonic production, and the man himself, sounding looser and more engaged than he has since Seattle blew in and rap took roost. My World is touched by up-to-date accents -- a techno flourish here, a bit of street beat there -- but it mostly presents Ray Charles himself, foursquare, singing from the soulful heart of pop. And that's plenty good enough...
After two months in the property room of the Harvard Police, the chicken may soon come home to roost. A Harvard junior's rubber chicken, that...
...Harvard, the canon still seems to rule the roost--the best Spy could muster was a course on Welsh poetry...