Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last triumph was the sweeping, stony The English Patient-- and he treats Tom Ripley's tale like David Lean on an epic bender. The thriller story becomes woven into a gorgeous, glorious travelogue through the high points of Italian sightseeing, circa 1957. And, I'll admit, I'm a sucker for a pretty shot of Roman sunlight...
...including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing unreasonably large sanctioning fees out of fighters. Prosecutors argue that something needs to be done to restore credibility to the sport following a run of fights demonstrating questionable judging (see: Holyfield-Lewis I) and questionable taste (Tyson and the sucker munch...
...matter what, do not be shamed by a sudden decline. This is business; it happens. Stocks are not like vacuum cleaners. They have no warranty. They cannot be returned. But they can regain lost value, or at the very least be sold to the next sucker...
...leather-faced old man intently folded his pink ballot and slotted it into the box, I felt a slight lump in my throat. I'm a sucker for the rituals and realities of democracy, and here we were in the remote Chinese village of Liujiachang watching a thousand citizens in a schoolyard listen to campaign speeches and then vote for mayor. The incumbent, a slick young man elected three years ago, promised to lower taxes and improve irrigation. The challenger, older and more earthy, promised to open the village books for inspection and eloquently described how his own success...
...second season and at the very height of its quality, Homer explained to Bart that the Cosby Show was canceled because Mr. Cosby didn't want the quality of the show to suffer. Bart answered, perhaps prophetically: "Quality, schmality! If I had a TV show, I'd run that sucker into the ground...