Word: gents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...about Craig, Cliff and Christabel, bad-attitude adolescent gargoyles, who feel about Christmas the way Scrooge did. They come alive and, expressing their stony contempt, trash wreaths, trees and blinking lights, finally getting hopelessly tangled in the awful mess. They would be tangled to this day if a fat gent in a red suit had not parked his reindeer nearby. Clinging to the book's spine is a stuffed baby gargoyle...
...here. It seems that Davies is afraid that if an idea was too subtly communicated, the audience might miss its overarching significance. Most characters are caricatures of exceedingly distasteful personality traits. When Davies wants us to know that the stepmother, Katherine, (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) has a problem, a stiff gent with the curiosity of a TV reporter blurts out, "She's taken a bottle... she's started to drink...