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...woman whom I had noticed before, and I had been ashamed of her. She was a stringy little black woman. She looked as if she were a hard drinker. Flat black face with tight features, dressed in a tight boy's sweater pulled down over a nondescript skirt...
...live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...
...saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...
Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...
...tights, a black tank top, a rough-trade belt, and Sony headphones over her ponytail. Iman, the gazelle-like Somalian, in silver pants and a noisy yellow top, joined her and they began dancing and laughing. Another black model, completely dressed on her bottom half in pleated silk skirt, stockings and shoes and completely bare above the waist, cantered through the room as Brooke watched in amazement...