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Eszterhas is the Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd, the eminence greasy of Hollywood.
His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.
Blurbs from Brzenzinski (effusive) and Kissinger (guarded) reinforce the air of eminence.
Back in town, the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower (Gulou) has been restored to its eminence on a hill in the very center of Nanjing.
When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?