Thus, I have to content myself with the thought that being depicted in Potter's lamest work as a wanker in a bad suit with a gift for talking hogwash is as good as it's ever going to get.
He took in the bruise-colored bags under Piasecki's eyes, the addict-like clenching of his jaw muscles, his bad suit, his corn-silk hair, and the blue Tour de France sunglasses pushed up on his head.
The wedding photos told their own story: Rose looking pert and joyous in a white half-circle hat, with a big coat hiding the bump because she'd fallen pregnant some months before, while George was in a bad suit twiddling his fingers, and with his eyes elsewhere.
On the other, there is the popular caricature, mostly imagined, and more than slightly racialized a huckster in a bad suit, rhyming and jiving the judge and jury into a kind of hypnotized state; a snake-oil salesman successful unto the extinction of the cobra.
As companies rush to shed distressed mortgages like a bad suit, others are turning around and snapping them up, hoping to make a buck on the fear in the mortgage market.
