Word: misteres
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...once concealed and intensified by easy courtesy. Yet the other thing always said about Matthiessen is that he's persistently tried to escape the comfort of his upbringing and put himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning. At 65 he's already spent a decade wrestling with Mister Watson, the fierce and accursed and untamable killer who was, by all accounts, "a good husband and a loving father, an expert and dedicated farmer, successful businessman and good neighbor...
...mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want to give her a glass of milk and a couple of cookies. Thank you, mister...
...cards at KittyKouture and snap up feline-embellished bangles,armlets, earrings, and lockets. A man asks Dorothythe Groomer for advice. His cat has ripped apartone end of his couch, and yes, he has provided ascratching post. The Groomer tells him to squirtthe cat in the face with a plant mister when itscratches, "and if that doesn't work, you can tieinflated balloons around the base of the couch;the pop will scare your kitty out of its badhabits." At the IAMS counter you can buy not justbrushes and toys but also tuna-flavored vitamins,cat shampoo, and pet cologne...
...every recycled show holds up so well. Some fondly remembered oldies, like The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, seem dated, and neither time nor camp tastes have improved Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have...
...Little Becky on Dad's show until she was a raunchy 29, was a Camel-smoking delinquent who learned "within days of coming on Friendly Neighbor that she could get a big rise out of the radio folks by saying things in her Little Becky voice, such as 'Hi, mister, want to see my panties...