Word: earlied
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...abuse, invective and those four-letter words that describe things people do every day in the privacy of their bedrooms and bathrooms. It may be that no salesman, not even these salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity. But to say this is to assume that Mamet's ear-to-the-gutter dialogue is naturalistic. It is not. This is street slang refined and extended into the surreal, the baroque, the abrasive, the lyrical. And as spoken in blazing ricochet rhythms by his energized septet of actors-especially Mantegna, Prosky and Lane Smith as a harried customer who comes...
...bodyguard off to buy rum, she drew Peérez into her bedroom and disarmed him. The general undoubtedly thought he was in for a special night; he was. At that moment, five of Astorga's accomplices jumped out of hiding and slit Perez's throat from ear to ear. Her mission accomplished, Astorga donned guerrilla fatigues and openly joined the revolution. She left behind a brazen message: "I want it to be known that I participated in the operation of bringing to justice the bloody henchman...
...passed among the populace wearing a hero's chaplet, surrounded by his soldiers, his booty and his captives. Lest he be made drunk by glory and the cheers of the citizens, he was sometimes provided with a slave who accompanied him in the ceremonies and whispered into his ear, "Remember, you are mortal...
...pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel. Powell, 31, a Houston roofer, has all the literary equipment for a new career: a peeled eye, a tuning-fork ear and an innovative way with local color and regional speech...
...stranger to White House guards, who had observed him on the grounds and questioned him earlier that week. In court, Mahonski burst out that he had "been down to the White House to ask the President to order the FBI to take that bug out of my ear." U.S. intelligence agencies, he rambled on, had planted a "bug in my ear that transmits everything I think across the country." The President, Mahonski concluded, "had certain elements of this society fill me full of dangerous drugs . . . that take my judgment like the Communists would, and ruined my life." Mahonski was charged...