Word: uriah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has always been filched by other media. And as a social reformer who, as George Orwell wrote, "succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody," Dickens ^ invented outsize villains and situations applicable to almost any taste or decade. The endless Broadway and movie adaptations of Dickens stories testify to the vitality...
...Hara was still outside. A window had opened on the second floor, and a man bearing a strong resemblance to Uriah Heep was leaning out. O'Hara shone his light up at him. "Hey you! Is this lady nahmal down...
...else lives hee-ah?" O'Hara shouted upstairs as he entered the building and started up the stairs. Uriah was waiting for us on the second floor in wild-eyed confusion. "He'sh an epileptic," he whinnied, pointing up at the third floor. "Take it eashy...