Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nervously standing by the courtroom door was Police Lt. John F. Rooney, sporting a new tan and a well-tailored suit. Sgt. Kathleen Stanford, heavily made-up and wearing a sweater, slacks and two huge earrings, sat next to Rooney...
...early, with the children of everyone Paul took in denouncing the parents, as if their charity were a deliberate affront to the younger generation. Here Guare hilariously captures the irate solipsism of overprivileged adolescence. After that, though, he has nowhere to go, except toward liberal piety, which does not suit his rare comic gift. Still, two good acts are rare these days. It's probably ungrateful to expect more...
...chief Midwest business correspondent. McWhirter came up with the idea of a combined article on GM, Ford and Chrysler early this year, but it took months of back-and-forth negotiations before all three were persuaded to cooperate. Actually, he says, "once one agreed, the others not only followed suit but competed with each other for the kind of access we were given...
...team is young, with only two seniors and three juniors. There are four sophomores and--get this--eight freshmen. That's a far cry from last year, when Dooley could only suit up 12 players, and a bellwether of better things to come...
...then there was the time Josh Lieb discovered he had no legs five minutes before the curtain was supposed to go up, and we had to fashion new ones out of Greg Clayman's fat-man suit...