Word: gentes
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...Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little too comfortable with the trial's lurid voyeurism? Or the hero of Hitchcock's Vertigo, a broken gent for whom an obsession with a corpse is the most fulfilling romantic release? Or the frontier lawyer in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, uneasy with the heroic legends printed about...
DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas...
...boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys are far out on the fabric's fringe: a decent chap who collects human skulls, and a huge, one-eyed wild man who lives in the swamps and eats roadkill. That this gent is a former Governor of Florida, an honest politician driven to distraction by greedsters, says all that is necessary about the author's view of government. Hiaasen's shabby secret, however (so the reader guesses), is that he loves his state's stupefying cheesiness, and wouldn't move to Vermont...
Meanwhile, a small tyke snuck up behind the eagle and pantsed him, pulling his shorts down to his ankles to the delight of the crowd. Not to be outdone, an older gent did the same thing. (No, the eagle isn't anatomically correct...
Still, it may have some future utility. In olden days, as a token of his romantic seriousness, a gent used to give his lady a copy of Kahlil Gibran's profoundly woozy The Prophet. Perhaps the gift of a videocassette of Before Sunrise will offer a similar opportunity for '90s fellows too clever to announce that they're on the make...