Word: bickering
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...etched humiliation on their souls. Faced with her husband's latest infidelity, Chloe decides to spend a day in London visiting Marjorie and Grace. They too are in their early 40s, their pasts a stream of errors. Grace has become a shrill hoyden, Marjorie an asexual careerist. They bicker and discuss each other's failings with a cool dispassion usually reserved for inanimate objects...
...director's autobiography. Scorsese portrays his parents not only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy, argue or bicker or tease. Scorsese even defies that eternal cliche of Italian-American life by showing his mother cooking meat balls and tomato sauce. At film's end, in gleeful tribute, he includes the recipe in the credits. Italianamerican has a kind of impulsive immediacy and is rich in the sort...
...trouble with Italy is that no one seems to be in charge. While the politicians bicker, the Italian bureaucracy -numbering 1,790,000-does most of the governing, but does it badly. Incredibly, the bureaucrats have managed not to spend $15 billion voted by Parliament for public improvements; some of these funds were actually approved ten years ago. Half of that money is for building roads, schools, hospitals and housing-which would also provide work for the unemployed...
...have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow into cooperation and exit smiling...
...mating or dancing. Johnny (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) and Wilma (Renee Taylor) have one of those marriages that resemble the state of chastity. This night, Wilma wants sex. But there is no love for Johnny, an advertising salesman who has just lost the Xerox account. As the pair bicker and belt each other a la Edward Albee's Virginia Woolf, it soon becomes clear that Wilma is twice the man Johnny is. Long ago, she kicked the living libido...