Word: scamps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...
...There is life beyond Bart. The scamp was the show's first star; his ripostes ("Eat my shorts") became T-shirt slogans. Bart is still the richest Simpsons character, but the purview has expanded to include all of Springfield, with 50 or so comic figures, from the Kwik-E-Mart's Apu Nahasapeemapetilan to the Kennedyesque Mayor Quimby to Krusty the Clown and his sadistic cartoon cohorts Itchy & Scratchy -- a wonderfully congested cosmos each week...
Some delinquent borrowers have tried to seek refuge behind Texas' homestead law, which shelters a debtor's home from hungry creditors. But Pankau nailed one scamp after he used proceeds from a commercial loan to hide $1 million in a River Oaks mansion. "If it's out there, we're going to find it," he insists. "The money all went into somebody's hands. It didn't go up in smoke...