For instance, how many politicians could have stated unchallenged, as Tom did during a TV interview on Entertainment Tonight in 2005, that psychiatry was a Nazi science and that methadone, a drug used to fight heroin addiction, was originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitler?

The nondeparture of the cargo ship disrupted their schedules.

He has a laserlike focus on the bottom line.

Sendak describes the slippery, sloppery, curvy, altogether delicious Art Deco palazzos [that] invited you to slide and bump along, in and out of flaming colored mazes [. . .], and past grand, even apocalyptic, oceans and skies.