Word: snakeskins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
Administration sources say President Clinton will determine the scope of the sanctions after reviewing recommendations from an interagency committee. The most likely action is a ban on imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that...
...Thomasons, there is Gary Belz, whose family owns the landmark Peabody hotel in Memphis and who moved to California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...
Heading for the finish line, Wickhamhas scored a mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...
Black worked in construction for a while, plugged away hard at making a musical name for himself through the boom years in Houston and the Urban Cowboy vogue of the early '80s, when every citybilly wanted to wear snakeskin boots and ride a mechanical bronc. "Hundreds of western-wear stores popped up around that time," Black observes dryly. "But, musically, I couldn't hear a lot of difference...