Word: lorelei
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...Lovely Bones). Paul Iverson, a 44-year-old linguistics professor, comes home to find that his wife Lexy has fallen from the apple tree in her backyard. Or jumped--he can't tell, and the only witness to her fall is a dog, a large, affectionate Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei. Paul becomes obsessed with finding out how his wife died. He sets out to teach Lorelei to talk so she can tell...
This is, of course, nuts, and at some level Paul knows that, but he gets to work anyway, making flash cards and constructing an oversize keyboard so Lorelei can type with her nose. Meanwhile Parkhurst intersperses Paul's quixotic efforts with his recollections (addressed to the reader in a chatty second person) of his romance with the moody, volatile Lexy and an intermittently engaging subplot about a secret cabal of researchers bent on endowing dogs with the power of speech using Gothically gruesome surgical techniques. This is totally implausible, but it helps reduce the novel's Q factor a little...
...It’s very reassuring to know that when we looked in detail at the effects of consuming foods containing high levels of acrylamide, we found no increased risk for three major cancers,” said Lorelei Mucci, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the SPH. “The findings don’t condone eating junk food, however...
...Buck Zuckerman, a Wall Streeter married to the actress Ruth Taylor (she played Lorelei Lee in the 1928 film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), would go downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside...