Word: shill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shill, but this really is an important event...
Manning--who said she had come forward because when Gingrich "talks about family values and acts righteous about stuff like that, it just gets my back up"--is hardly a shill for the American welfare state, nor are Gingrich's former campaign treasurer and another aide who both went on the record with Sheehy about Gingrich's various affairs, but never mind. Stonewalling the press in matters sexual often works, but it doesn't stop the frenzy of interest, which is particularly high when the person in question has set himself up as the putative leader of the family-values...
...weren't warned. Anyone who memorized tomes of Harvard minutia to obtain the privilege to be a shill for the administration is probably not a good nighttime companion in the first place, but we were bored...
...with their lives. None of them have been eulogized like Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman--the one a promiscuous tippler who puttered around in Ferraris without having contributed anything significant to society, whose lifetime occupation was that of silicon-impregnated consort to a brutish gladiator and rental car shill, the other a member of that most dispensible of species--the "aspiring actor/model". Are these two typical of murder victims? Is their loss the greatest tragedy on planet Earth this year, worthy of the global mourning that Rwanda cannot buy at the price of a half-million lives...
...fans like to complain about too much shill in sports, where even the scoreboard has a sponsor. As it stands, a relief pitcher in baseball can't enter the ninth inning without announcers mentioning Rolaids or the NYNEX "call to the bullpen." If this keeps up much longer, expectorating on the field will have a sponsor. But there's a good side to corporate ownership. It gives the fan a new way to enjoy the game: buying shares in the company that owns the team...