Word: inquisitor
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After the Gateses returned to the hotel, I went back to Meera Bagh to talk to Sushila. She was giving her children a bath, but she stopped to play hostess to yet another foreign inquisitor. I sat on the bed, and she stood beside it, discreetly breast-feeding Liza while Puja, the toddler, hid under her sari...
Female detectives are usually tough (Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski) or cute (Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe). Maisie, whose card reads PSYCHOLOGIST AND INVESTIGATOR, is neither: she's a cerebral, vulnerable inquisitor who takes up sleuthing in the late 1930s to heal the trauma she experienced as a nurse in the Great War. Set in an era when women were grappling with modernity, Pardonable Lies, the third of this young series, sends Maisie on a quest for truth, during which secrets and lies lead instead to self-discovery. --By Johanna McGeary
...rain slacked off the day of the game, and the field sucked down the moisture with a Saharan-like thirst. In the parking lot, Odessans in recreational vehicles relished barbecue. In one, Stan Pulley, Marge Pulley, Claudeane Sublett, John Sublett, Mike Carter and Jan Jones addressed an inquisitor all at once, making it difficult to record who said what...
...Brattle’s Ingmar Bergman festival continues with the story of a 19th century conjurer-hypnotist, played by Bergman repertory player and Exorcist priest Max Von Sydow, traveling throughout shadowy Sweden along with his troupe of repertory performers. After falling into the hands of a grand inquisitor, a doctor decides it his professional responsibility to expose Sydow as a charlatan and the two sides clash in a brilliantly evocative philosophical duel between art and science, rationality and irrationality, believer and non believer. It all climaxes in a beautifully destructive sequence that reduces the once proud doctor to his bare...
...Minutes. But when MIKE WALLACE challenged some New York City cops who were questioning his double-parked limo driver last week, the newsman got arrested for disorderly conduct. The police claimed Wallace, 86, lunged at them. "I find it difficult to lunge into bed," says CBS's gray inquisitor, who was picking up a takeout dinner at the time. But Wallace, who heads to court Oct. 7, got something good from the evening: "The meat loaf was superb...