Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been hard at work in the past 10 days, and here is what happened: a Federal Express pilot took a claw hammer and attacked three others in the cockpit, forcing one of them to put the fully loaded DC-10 cargo plane through a series of violent rolls and nose dives in a melee that brought the whole crew back bleeding. A purchasing manager in suburban Chicago stabbed his boss to death because, police say, they couldn't agree on how to handle some paperwork. And a technician who quit because he had trouble working for a woman sneaked back...
...majority of injuries were scalp wounds andfacial cuts and bruises. One Harvard students saidhe was maced in the face, but he left to findtreatment elsewhere. Another Harvard student had apossible broken nose, and a girl from Brandeis wasdriven to Stillman with a possible broken...
...plane -- inexplicably may have disengaged the plane's autopilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control...
Fisher's alter ego is the screenwriter Cora. In letters to her unborn baby scattered throughout the story, we find out she's naming the baby Esme, even though it sounds like a noise her nose makes, and we learn that the she can't resist cracking a joke about serious things. Cora also leads what she calls a "noisy life" full of parties and problems and oodles of self-absorption. This cycle dominates, except of course, when she is forced to make room for the plot...
...that suffers because of his actions, I trust that Cachan will not assert that I must be forced to inhale his smoke. I hope he will recognize that his right to spew his smoke, just as his right to extend his fist, must end at the tip of my nose...