Dianna Carlin, 36, the owner of Lola Star, said that just for being chosen, she received dirty looks and cold shoulders from the other shop owners.
I burst out laughing when a team of brawny, tap-dancing men in purple camouflage fatigues started flexing their muscles at one another, and I received dirty looks from nearby audience members who apparently did not share in my amusement.
Politicians from various major Brazilian parties allegedly received dirty money from inflated deals between oil and construction firms; scores of congressmen, senators, and executives are currently under investigation.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Mayer allegedly received dirty money from booking agency Grabow & Associates, which the suit alleges may have as much as $465,000, although the connection between the agency and Berg is not clear.
In fact, I did not know anyone who was pro-life growing up except for the one house in my town that posted pro-life lawn signs to which they received dirty looks and negative town chatter.
She admitted in court to receiving "dirty-looking" diamonds that she was later told came from Taylor.
The supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared before a war crimes tribunal in the Hague today where she admitted receiving "dirty-looking" diamonds that she was later told came from the former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor.
Campbell told the trial at The Hague yesterday that she received "dirty-looking stones" after a 1997 dinner hosted by Mandela in Cape Town where guests included Taylor and the actor Mia Farrow.
The defence was able to claim that the model's appearance at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial amounted to a "spectacular own goal" after she stopped short of saying that the former Liberian president had given her diamonds, and instead revealed only that she had received "dirty-looking stones" and did not know who they were from.
Ms Campbell told the court she received "dirty-looking stones" from Charles Taylor in September 1997, after both attended a star-studded charity dinner given in South Africa by the then President Nelson Mandela.
