Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year has passed since a deranged Hungarian-born Australian named Lászlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pietà in its chapel at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. With 15 hammer blows Toth knocked off the Madonna's left forearm, dented her veil, smashed her nose and chipped her left cheek (left...
Operations performed in outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...
...hands know, but her mind cannot remember. This face is known by her trembling thin hands. Her fingers have memorized it, with its teasing bumps all over the cheeks and its coarse hair under the nose and chin. Her fingers and tickled and chased themselves inside the small ears, like black goblins on either side of the head. Oh hell, who is this man? She could recall no name or past that belonged to him. He was simply present, and unexplained. Her body shivers in her heart's confusion...
...stoops quickly to kiss a particularly friendly crevice beside his nose and then she is outside...
Pinocchio's nose grew longer with each fib. Howard's merely twitches in private glee at each deception. Up to this point, Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, The Good Life) has created an amusing if implausible scoundrel and a book that makes suitable summer reading on those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed...