Word: suited
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...eyes for much of this tune, moving his head slowly side to side as he listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy to see why he is heralded as on of the best saxophonists of his generation. When the piano's turn came...
...stemming from the failure of FirstSouth Savings and Loan. At the insistence of Senate Republicans, the FDIC has reopened a conflict-of-interest investigation involving Madison Guaranty, the failed S&L headed by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in Whitewater. In 1989 the firm represented the FDIC in a suit against Madison's auditors, despite the fact that, four years earlier, Hillary had dealt with state regulators on Madison's behalf...
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin sits in his fourth-floor office at the Chicago archdiocese two days after a suit against him alleging sexual abuse has been withdrawn. He has got calls from the Pope and the First Lady on his red phone, the only dash of color in the severely plain room. He turns away from his marble conference table to point at the window he looked out on the day before the suit was filed last November. He remembers seeing a few reporters huddled below near the canopy of the Barclay hotel, peering up at his office. Every time...
...left his office and went home to change for a charity dinner. Reporters were waiting for him there too, and at that point he decided he had to take their questions. "I'm an open person, not defensive. I hadn't even seen this suit, but it was clear I couldn't wait. So I simply told them I had never abused anyone at any time at any place...
What happened next is a textbook illustration of how people can manipulate the media and why journalists must do their own homework before giving extended airtime to uncorroborated allegations. According to a source familiar with the case, the plaintiff's lawyer had rushed to file the suit in hopes of having it included in an imminent CNN special on priests and sex. Indeed, plaintiff Steven Cook, 35, had been made available for an exclusive CNN interview. Sure enough, when the suit was filed the next day, Nov. 12, CNN aired the interview with Cook, who said he had repressed...