Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want a new name and a new career and a new house in a different city - and maybe a new nose from the D.A.'s cosmetic surgeon...
...remaining in the 13th round, Valle scrambled under the ropes and ran across the ring, folded his arms about his fighter and propped his head on Cooney's chest. He held on dearly. The fighter's left eyelid was sliced, and the bridge of his two-tiered nose was split...
...that is merely prelude. Even his fiery escape in the plane, under the out-of-joint nose of the Communist Party's First Secretary, first-rate though the sequence is, does not prepare one for the marvels that follow. For Firefox is a magical airplane. It is blur-fast. It is invisible to radar. It has a shield that makes it almost impervious to enemy rockets. And a pilot can direct its weaponry with his brain waves; you think bad thoughts about the other guy, and blam! you blow him right out of the sky. It is probably true...
...mind. He has a genial taste for mild eccentrics and sees to it that plenty of them wander in and out of Gregory's life. There is a friend who is overstuffed with useless facts ("Did you know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because he has an unmanageable sweet tooth, a ten-year-old sister, precociously wise in the ways of the world, who gives Gregory...
...himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds her nose to conduct a secret affair with Maximo...