Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MAMET relishes these games of greed and deception, and he displays the casinos and the mobsters in all their garish glory. He presents a colorful parade of mob hierarchy, from obsequious, weasel-like underlings to laconic, imperious chieftains...
...settlement filed in a St. Louis federal court, Chrysler will pay some 38,600 automobile owners at least $500 apiece from an initial fund of $16.3 million. The settlement concludes an investigation that began some two years ago, Iacocca writes, when a Chrysler executive in Missouri "tried to weasel out of a ticket by telling the officer that he didn't know how fast he was going because his speedometer was disconnected...
...crowd agrees that Fleet Streeters, able to weasel their way into anything, are the best practitioners of stake-out journalism. "We don't take no for an answer," says David Wright, an Englishman who is the Enquirer's current ace reporter. Wright once posed as a florist's messenger, delivering roses to Megan Marshack, the staffer who had been with Nelson Rockefeller when he died and was holed up in her apartment trying to avoid the press. "I nearly had to buy the truck to get the setup right," he recalls. John Blackburn, an American who at one time...
...Weasel, Slippery Mick, Flying Pharaoh & Co. are the sobriquets of truck drivers who make the overland shuttle from England to Saudi Arabia, carrying heavy machinery to and cheap petroleum fro. Several years ago, British Journalist Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved...
...victims. Jump Again! (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $14.95) demonstrates that a classic offers something fresh to each generation. This time it is Van Dyke Parks' riotous retelling and Barry Moser's elegant watercolors. Beneath the new surface, of course, the hero is instantly familiar, once again outmaneuvering Brer Fox, Weasel and Bear, winning the paw of Miss Molly and proving graphically that when trouble comes, "There's always...