Word: hauteur
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...ostentatiously on the page. Like History, it's a murder mystery in which the mystery is secondary. Twelve years before the novel begins, Harriet's 9-year-old brother Robin was found hanged in the backyard. Harriet's family--social pillars who have lost their wealth but not their hauteur--have not healed well. Her father has abandoned the family; her mother has checked out emotionally, leaving Harriet's rearing to the maid and the Alexandria, Miss., library, whose blackhearted adventure tales--Stevenson's pirates, Kipling's cobras--she reads greedily. She also loves Bible stories, for their morbid, operatic...
Conley has rich material--horse-mad plutocrats, grisly sexual mishaps--and his prose is never less than engaging. He endows pampered Storm Cat, who commands half a million dollars for a roll in the hay, with "the hauteur and the low body fat of an underwear model." But once you are past the bizarreness of high- end horse prostitution, the book leaves you feeling a little jaded. Like the participants in the loveless couplings he describes, Conley doesn't invest a lot of emotion in his subject. Line for line, Conley is twice the writer Squires...
...only is Germany edging ever closer to the 3% mark, but Gerhard Schröder, with a mixture of heavy-handedness and hauteur, has even muscled the Commission into withholding the obligatory letter of warning. How could he do this? If you run the biggest economy in the E.U., you can. Especially if you get two more biggies, in this case, France and Britain, to go along, or at least not to oppose...
...want to be playing for the Pirates. So he got his chance to jump ship, and zipped over to the San Francisco Giants, his father?s old team. And in recent years he has settled into something resembling a relationship with the community there, occasionally even stepping outside his hauteur to smile, sign a ball or lend his name to a charity event...
...fashion advisers for dressing her up "too rich." These days, she makes a visible effort to visit more slums, wearing jeans and traveling by cycle-rickshaw. As part of her makeover, her image doctors tried to promote Arroyo as Ate Glo, or "older sister" in Tagalog. But her polished hauteur has made it difficult for the sisterly tag to stick. Nobody doubts her guts or commitment, though: after being booed out of Tondo shantytown, she bravely went back and listened to the residents' many gripes...