Word: mischiefism
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...politicians: no matter what he's discussing, Haruki Murakami appears strangely, almost disconcertingly placid. During nearly three hours of conversation, emotion flickers across the face of the most popular Japanese writer since Yukio Mishima precisely once. After a wry put-down of a rival novelist, his eyes sparkle with mischief and his lips curl into a smile. But Murakami's words-both written and spoken-are a different matter. Listen to them carefully and you soon realize he is brimming with passion. As American novelist Jay McInerney puts it, Murakami captures "the common ache of the contemporary head and heart...
...restaurant. He eats all his Mediterranean noodles, then the fingers of one customer and the face of another. Finally, he devours all the meat and flesh from his own left arm; the appendage's skeleton waves rakishly. At the film?s climax, the malefic priest responsible for all this mischief sets his sights on the last unviolated woman in Hong Kong, but he still needs a little erotic encouragement. ?Show me your bitchy look,? he commands...
...booze doesn’t flow as easily today,” he notes, recalling an annual Kirkland Kentucky Derby Day in the 1980s flooded in beer. Hill says that the crackdown on alcohol may have affected the kinds of leisure activities in which students engage. “Mischief still goes on but in a different way,” Hill says, though he is is currently soliciting input from current students to discover what this...
Kulash’s eyes sparkle as he says this, a hint of mischief lurking about his crinkled lips. Right now he is perched on a park bench, hunched over the tape recorder as if demanding its attention. He is completely unfazed by the screech of the sirens that occasionally fly by, or the couple giving us dirty looks from the next bench over. His enthusiasm is sincere, and he is determined to give his fans one hell of an interview. “It’s exciting. We don’t read a whole lot of music...
...case, the real mischief in Bush’s rhetoric has less to do with the accuracy of his analyses than with the way his rhetoric insulates them from criticism. He has reduced the debate over Iraq to a choice between only two alternatives: invade now or live with a new Cold War, one in which we face the constant threat of devastating attack...