Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature of "Smokin' Bob Dole...
...some fairly deadly predicaments. The better half of her new novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages; $25), carries on cheerfully with this agreeable storytelling. The main character, Lily White, is a 45-year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands on her throat...
Payne is a tall, lean, all-American man: a jowlier Tom Brokaw in a red, white and blue tie. He shakes hands firmly and stands with his face too close to yours. When he's kept waiting, he whistles impatiently and claps one hand over a closed fist. He has spent his life emulating a father who asked him, "Did you do the best you could?" Young Billy could never answer yes. He's still trying. Despite a deadly family cardiac history and, at 48, two bypasses to call his own, Payne is, to say the least, driven. "You wake...
...innocent of murder. That impression grows when his girlfriend turns up. She is young and gorgeous, and as empty-headed as a golden retriever pup. Or so it seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories. But she is also very tall, and the prints of her large hands, it develops, are all over the victim's home. Suspicion shifts, and the con man changes his already woozy account, apparently to protect his partner, though of course protecting her implies she needs protection...
...quest begins with girlhood. "No one forgets adolescence. No one," she assures us. Certainly Friday has not forgotten hers. Apparently being tall in the South in the '50s was considered as gauche as being plump is in the supermodel '90s. Friday spent her teenage years in a height-eliminating, self-annihilating bended plie...