Word: fitzhugh
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Skurnick has an admitted "HUGE ADDICTION" to all caps, which she blames on a literary heroine who has stood the test of time: Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet Welsch, a.k.a. Harriet the Spy. Homage aside, in conjunction with gushy OMGs and exclamation points, the use of all caps points to the problematic nature of writing for an Internet audience. Many of these essays first appeared under the heading "Fine Lines" on Jezebel.com where the overarching tone is that of the cool babysitter - sweetly patronizing, with a not-yet-entirely-earned wisdom. Within that home, the essays seemed penetrating and serious, like...
HIGHWAY 61 RESURFACED BILL FITZHUGH...
...classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced tea, and his characters are just over the top, like a Carl Hiaasen cast plucked from the Everglades and planted, as Dylan would put it, out on Highway...
...ability to detect salinity in the water would allow it to stay in waters that are less likely to freeze. “One thing this is showing is how little we know about a lot of creatures, especially those in the north,” said Fitzhugh. “Closer work with the Inuit will bring about more results [on the narwhal’s tusk].” The Inuits, an indigenous people living in the Arctic, are very familiar with the animals. Nweeia, who also has a full-time dental practice in Connecticut, said he pursued...
...Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration David A. Thomas—who has taught a required course for first-year students at HBS, “Leadership and Organizational Behavior,” with Podolny—said yesterday that his colleague was capitalizing on a unique opportunity...