Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villain is dragged in from relative obscurity near the end, and the summing-up could be briefer. But the characters are portrayed with wickedly informed satire, and by the rueful conclusion, Murphy has exhibited more than enough potential to do for the legal world what the tongue-in-cheek Emma Lathen mysteries have done to demystify investment banking...
...foreign press, the barrel-chested Namphy exhibited a whimsical personality. He spoke as he cut a zigzag path through a room in the palace filled with busts of past Haitian Presidents. When a woman reporter pressed for specific answers about his plans for the country, Namphy pinched her cheek. Said he: "We have only been the government three days, and those have been holidays. Give us a break...
...that seriously. Nor does she feel as though she is being exploited. "Man Ray isn't the Combat Zone. I don't take off my clothes and I don't do salacious dancing. It's just a little more exaggerated than usual. Really--everything is done tongue-in-cheek, a parody of sexy go-go dancers," she says...
Where the lights come into their own is on Fourth and Fifth avenues, not only the Christmas decorations but the shops shining from inside: Santiago Grocery, De An's House of Beauty. Billy, the drug addict with the gash on his cheek, skulks in and out of these lights like an actor on a stage. He pauses at various clusters of men his age, hangs out for a while, then moves along. Everywhere there are huddles of such men, standing together and apart at once, their bodies angled away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window...
...several incidents in Harvard Square Saturday night, a man was stabbed in the cheek during what witnesses say was a conflict between area youths...