Great Moments in Journalism: draw in, exhale, expire, fan, gasp, gulp, inhale, insufflate, etc.
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from our new pal Mara Altman of the Voice:
A woman in her mid-fifties walks through Jeff Eisenberg's office door. She's got a blond bob and cherry lipstick on. She's out of breath; hyperventilating might be the better word for the way she's respiring. Her mouth hangs slightly open, her face contorted in panic. She extracts two Ziploc sandwich bags hidden in the pocket of her black wool coat. She believes the media predictions of nightmarish bloodsucking creatures taking over New York City might be coming true in her bedsheets. She fumbles and trembles as she lays the contents on the desk of her neighborhood exterminator.
