Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quickly--Carey mimes perfectly the Victorian novelist's skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant's anguish by mesmerizing, i.e., hypnotizing, him. Maggs, a man desperate to keep secrets, is at the mercy of Oates, a man avid to exploit them...
...time to grow into all the off-ice attention. Sitting at a Benihana's last month, eating a meal called the Rocky's Junior, Kariya touched his cheek and discussed his shaving habits: "A lot more often this year," he says, "every two or three days now." Maybe 2002, in Salt Lake City, will work better for Kariya after all. Gretzky can handle the Japanese...
...even more controversial approach is the risky "fist-to-cheek" position. Here, sleepers place an elbow on the armrest of the chair, and then balance the weight of their head on the strategically positioned knuckles. The peril here lies in the forces of gravity, which slowly pull the head downward, resulting in a cranial free-fall, jolting the student back to consciousness...
...entirely blame him for being confused: according to the San Francisco Chronicle, he had E-mail from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and board member Larry Ellison telling him he was hired. The E-mail was real--but the job offer was totally tongue in cheek. Seems Jobs was fed up with Murdock's persistent inquiries about the position and decided to handle it with humor...
Above all, though, the tongue-in-cheek chapter titles and neon-lit campy details capture the novel's overarching irony. As humor is Hartley's means of survival, it is also his means of narration: "Just when I'd decided I had the soul of a drudge, just when it came clearest I was the muddy flower-peddler, not her aftermath-princess, just when I felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds...