espaliered fruit tree

Missouri, the country's cartographic linchpin

why give political succor

We were standing in the lee of an eatery

but the office gestalt was hawkish

generally inimical to bell-bottomed, lefty film-studies majors

My memory of that shriveling and rolling was sui generis, distrinct from my other memories.

their pleasures were insufficiently trammeled by conscience and responsibility

Some of the rooms had transoms that Manley or Davis could climb through.

a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore