Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea. Why? Confesses Albright brightly, "It sounded better than A Bunch of Fish...
...Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags. Item: a gangster Goldfingered for liquidation is taken for a ride to the nearest junkyard, where car and contents are seized by a giant claw, dropped into a mighty mangle and ruthlessly crushed into a small square bale of bloody metal. "Ah, yes!" Goldfinger graciously explains when somebody wonders where the gangster is. "He had a pressing engagement...
...sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs her bluntly. "Ah give awff body heat." To doubt it would doubtless be unkind...
...Ah, yes, that was the year I graduated from the sixth grade at P.S. 124--which was as far as that school went-- to the seventh grade at P.S. 40, two blocks further away along Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. It was a big thing and I had looked forward to it for years. It was my first Commencement...
...Ah yes! You bring it all back as though it were yesterday. It was nice of you to look it up, and I am grateful. George Wald '16 Professor of Biology...