Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...municipality racked by scandal--a bribery sting netted three officials last year--Suarez also decided to name an indicted ally, Humberto Hernandez, as chairman of the city commission. Hernandez goes on trial soon for money laundering and fraud. But after the state's Department of Law Enforcement announced an investigation into charges of vote fraud, the mayor also appointed Chairman Hernandez to lead a counterinvestigation into the department's investigation...
...person's uniform of jeans, sneakers, T shirt (and optional Oxford shirt, unbuttoned), surrounded by exactly the kind of stuff a Long Island high school kid from the '60s might buy if he grew up to be a multimillionaire--car models, superhero models, Mets memorabilia, a mint-condition Schwinn Sting-Ray--Seinfeld comes across as a relatively contented man, perhaps the first self-actualized comic in history...
...Tobacco Under the Hot Lights A minor sting by Justice is making the Big Five very nervous. Now, a lot of lawyers for Big Tobacco are going back on the clock...
...much of it they will sell, how soon and at what price. One obvious problem is Asia. Tech companies were doing a lot of business there before the region's economies imploded. Intel, for example, has been getting 28% of its annual revenue there and will surely feel a sting from the slowdown...
There's little moral rooting interest here; the fun comes from expert actors spitting out the lurid rhythms of punk patter. You want affability fragging into menace? Tarantino can write it for you. Jackson and Fonda, especially, can deliver it with a swell sting...