Skeeter ponders if "the Chosen One" is "embroiled in fresh mysteries that will one day explode upon us all, plunging us into a new age of terror and mayhem", or if his wife has "perhaps cursed him", as "cracks [begin] to show in a union that the Potters are determined to promote as happy".
Finding himself in a bewildering Mitteleuropa, he is counselled by Dr Freud (not that one) and embroiled in the irrational doings of a malodorous ticket inspector, a sadistic valet, a lascivious count and his luscious daughter.
"Young man," he said, looking pensively at the floor, to Kermit, "do you realize that you have webbed feet?" Kermit himself has given many lecture-demonstrations, among them one that embroiled him with the letter "W," that program's sponsor.
Rather, the extension of marriage rights has thrown gays here into a heated debate, akin to the one that embroiled the American civil rights movement in the 1960's, over how much "integration" is a good thing -- and what gay marriage should consist of.
An engineer from one firm embroiled in the Petrobras scandal, Odebrecht, has told the Brazilian press that he carried out work on the Atibaia property, reportedly frequented by Lula and his family, at the request of a senior company executive.
But he rarely gave his critics a second glance because, as far as he was concerned, he had more pertinent issues to deal with – on one occasion embroiling himself in a surreal public spat with a Mexican drug cartel over a kidnapped activist.
As newspaper headlines focused on the ongoing fallout from the Snowden affair – one that soon embroiled the U.K.'s own intelligence service – homes up and down the country were flooded on a weekly basis with leaflets that focused on how the government was going to access confidential records.
Mr. Ventura is widely perceived as a legitimate critic of the campaign finance system, one that has embroiled the vice president in controversy.
One Soho maid embroiled in the raids said: "The vice squad used to visit the Soho flats every three months, take down the girls' names and addresses, ask if there were any problems and then leave.
Since then, Ms. Tietjen, her husband, Richard, and a number of district residents have waged a crusade to save the house, one that has embroiled this quiet neighborhood in a vocal debate.
