Word: nosed
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It’s a larger phenomenon, I guess: New York seems to instinctively look down its proverbial nose at its little brother across the river. The city is the cultural epicenter of the world, and New Jersey is…well, to many people it’s just a series of rest-stops for those traveling up or down I-95. Consequently, New York gets a lot of perks at New Jersey’s expense, especially in the world of sports...
...avant-garde artist and architect who co-founded the San Francisco-based "underground architecture" studio Ant Farm; in a fall while climbing alone to a whale observation point; near Sydney, Australia. In 1974, he installed the famed "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas. The outdoor sculpture's 10 Cadillacs, thrust nose-down in the ground, were taken to represent the decline of U.S. industry...
There are the wealthy and the poor and people on every step of the ladder in between, ambitious nose-to-the-grindstone academic types and older folks who gather on benches to watch...
...person Dyer least wants to be is himself, a fact that he makes brutally clear as he describes staring into a mirror to find "the awful reality?gray hair, bulbous nose, scrawny neck. It was as if all the hidden misery of my life had suddenly manifested itself." Only when faced with his essential self, and the realization that sex, drugs and travel have not brought him any closer to the Zone, does he catch a fleeting glimpse of his Holy Grail in the Roman ruins of Libya's Leptis Magna. "Immediately there was the sense?which...
This is, of course, nuts, and at some level Paul knows that, but he gets to work anyway, making flash cards and constructing an oversize keyboard so Lorelei can type with her nose. Meanwhile Parkhurst intersperses Paul's quixotic efforts with his recollections (addressed to the reader in a chatty second person) of his romance with the moody, volatile Lexy and an intermittently engaging subplot about a secret cabal of researchers bent on endowing dogs with the power of speech using Gothically gruesome surgical techniques. This is totally implausible, but it helps reduce the novel's Q factor a little...