Word: rouletting
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That life implodes when Haller is retained by Louis Ross Roulet, a rich realtor accused of violently beating up a call girl. Appearances are deceptive, and as Haller probes deeper, he suddenly finds that he must play the unusual role of upholding justice. He is a ruthless defense attorney who must be the hero, and Haller courageously rises to the occasion even as a savage, only-in-LA sociopath threatens to destroy him and his loved ones...
...last Wednesday night, Picasso's 1905 Au Lapin Agile was widely expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...
...trading deadline neared, Seaver had second thoughts and appealed to Mets President Lorinda de Roulet. daughter of the late Joan Whitney Payson, the club's founder. "Tom had at least four conversations with Mother," said Whitney de Roulet, 23, a Mets public relations aide. "I felt that the talks were working out well and that Tom would remain with us." Indeed, Seaver left the dugout the night before he was traded to confer by telephone with Mrs. De Roulet. An agreement was apparently worked out. But next day, Seaver heard about a story by New York News Sports Columnist...
...Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler for diplomatic decorum. He liked to vent his conservative views in pithy asides, and several times was overheard referring to islanders as niggers. "He loved dogs more than humans," a Jamaican official said, recalling that for the return of one of his lost pets (a mongrel dog) the ambassador once offered $500, which is more than many Jamaicans earn in a year. De Roulet rattled Jamaicans even more by telling a Rotary Club lunch gathering that the visa section of his embassy...
...this perhaps might have been forgiven if De Roulet had displayed even modest talents of discretion. But that seemed beyond him, as he made all too clear to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee on multinational corporations a fortnight ago. De Roulet claimed in a public hearing that he had made a "deal" with Jamaica's new and progressive Prime Minister Michael Manley, 49, before last year's election. In exchange for a personal guarantee that Manley would not nationalize the U.S.-owned bauxite industry, De Roulet said, he had promised not to intervene in the elections. Manley promptly...