Word: mosquitoe
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...think you look pretty normal, so why do you think anyone would call you "a journalistic mosquito...
...teasing, just-between-girlfriends way with patients that makes her office seem more like Oprah than a dermatology clinic. The injections she administers--"Don't worry! It's only a baby needle!"--leave a series of bloody little welts across Maggie's forehead. Though they look like nasty mosquito bites, they will disappear within minutes as the toxin is absorbed into the muscles; within four or five days, Maggie's forehead will be immobile, about which she is unconcerned. "People aren't that observant," she notes. "They don't say, 'Hey--you can't raise your eyebrows...
...bars. She has been sued a dozen times by her count and never lost, and in a 1991 trial, one mother said that while she was under review for flight Faye kept her children from her and coerced them into lies about their father. But that case was a mosquito at her neck. Faye slapped it and walked away clean...
...guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge who had kept him under "house arrest" since a show trial last year blandly informed reporters that one of the world's most notorious mass murderers had died peacefully Wednesday night of a heart attack, discovered when his wife came to tuck in his mosquito...
...plows through an existence where there is no boundary between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue. From sardines she jumps to the slave-ships of the Middle Passage, to the fake Moroccan leather of the bag of the woman beside her to the mosquito on the cover of the woman's Scientific American...