Word: misteres
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...prone to touching strangers randomly and shouting insults like "Eat me Mister Dicky-weed!" becoming a detective is probably not the most obvious career move. Case in point: Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn P.I. who can't shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
...Mister Mayor...
...your sorrys in a sack, mister. Beijing wasn?t exactly mollified by a senior U.S. diplomat?s explanation and apology for the Belgrade embassy bombing. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering?s account of how the "tragic mistake" occurred was dismissed Thursday by China?s Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan as "unconvincing and unacceptable." He demanded that Washington come up with something more than the out-of-date-map explanation, and "severely punish" the individuals responsible before Beijing would consider resuming military and trade talks with...
...emphasize a point under discussion, E.J. Watson once shot the mustache off a man named Brewer. So testifies writer Peter Matthiessen in Killing Mister Watson, the first of three dense, fascinating novels centering on a turn-of-the-century Florida cane planter, brawler and gunman who was shot to death in 1910 by a posse of townsmen...
...this fire breather? It was Slade Gorton, the very same Washington Senator who just three weeks ago was making bipartisan music with Democrat Joe Lieberman. But now Gorton was bouncing off the walls of the radio-TV gallery like Mister Rogers on a caffeine binge. What had happened? Perhaps the normally temperate Gorton had simply been worn down by the marathon negotiations. Perhaps he wanted to be the first to trot out that overworked movie title. Or, perhaps, like so many others, he had been driven temporarily insane by full-frontal exposure to the case against Clinton...