Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there the comparison ends. Where Skeffington is a symbol, the healthiest specimen around of the classic Irish pol, Levine is very much a human being, his own man rather than the property of every voter who happens to own a brogue or a pug nose...
...your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...
...deep. We were beaten, but there were no regrets on board. The one that got away had put up a furious fight. The memory would last. There would be other nights to float on the black and silent sea and wait for the electrifying moment when a broadbill would nose up from the depths, ready to duel with anyone who waited to challenge...
...married and fathered five daughters. His eccentricities were notable chiefly because of their rarity. He liked to wear a hat in the office, pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits. And that was it. Colorful and bizarre living he left to his friends. In that regard, Scott and Zelda, Ernest, Tom and the rest rarely let him down...
...third triumph is Robert Moberly's ludicrous yet piteous Sir Andrew, whose cough cannot conceal a basically pasty-faced visage. For him plant stalks are a snare, his nose a source of itching, he skin a meal for flies and mosquitoes. Moberly is amazingly inventive; he runs the risk of submerging Anddrew in a dictionary of shtick, but succeeds in making it all work. I do not recall ever seeing any of Shakespeare's peripheral comics played more engagingly...