Word: moles
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...years later, The Times, breaking with its policy of selfcensorship that had served the nation so badly at the Bay of Pigs and in the early years of Vietnam escalation, tore a page from the style books of the Old Mole and the Crimson and published its own set of stolen documents. The Pentagon Papers set off a chain of overreaction in the White House that eventually destroyed Richard Nixon and his clique, as surely as Pusey's overreaction destroyed...
...KISS FOR MOTHER by Tomi Ungerer. 40 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $5.95. Piper Paw is a bad-hat young cat who cannot abide being called Honey Pie by his mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. Nor can he stand her icky kisses. After plying the little creep with Casserole of Mole Innards, mother finally slaps son into silence. He buys her yellow roses and they come to a kissless domestic stalemate that is better than their sweet-and-sour past. A very sharp and funny book...
...Doig is tall and skinny and if I remember correctly he has a mole somewhere on his long face. He is of Scottish descent and he laughs loud and deep at things that are only vaguely funny. He smokes a pipe all day long; if you catch him at any time after eleven o'clock in the morning you will find that he stinks from the odor of tobacco...
...Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...
...voice speaks as if from a dungeon of alienation: the voice pleads with the reader for understanding, and as the speaker surfaces out of the narrative sporadically to grope at us, the torture of writing such a chronicle becomes a major theme. With a style like that of a mole burrowing furiously inches below the soil, sending up a series of tiny explosions of dirt, Rhodes has created a narrator that is some kind of seventies' Underground...