Word: brooding
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...film's funniest episode stars Anna Magnani as a middle-aged mother hen trying to herd her brood of three children, her terrified husband and her aged mother-in-law across a highway. Screaming at policemen, interfering with drivers, Magnani is a law unto herself as she belts the offending cars with her purse and shouts epithets at everything that dares to move against her. In a series of bright sight gags, she dashes between wheels and fenders, rescuing children, husband, and finally her mother-in-law's shoe-only to find that the store she is seeking...
...derived from Jean Jacques Rousseau, Nicolette went barefoot, often swam naked in the freezing Atlantic. When her fearless father Macnamara led her across the peat bogs, he was accustomed to throw her across the wider draining ditches. After that cuckoo County Clareman walked out on Mother and the Macnamara brood, they were given house room by Augustus John...
...problem," says Johnson, "was to match the old building with something that neither dominated it nor was just a tail to it; something that wasn't a copy and yet followed the function." He took three years to brood before the public got its first look at his model. It turned out to be neither modern nor Renaissance but massively medieval, a bastion for books that seemed to echo H. H. Richardson's Trinity Church across Copley Square. But Johnson had bound his new addition with the old through a variety of formal devices: a common cornice line...
...sure, many aspiring young writers hurl such despairing challenges at themselves, brood majestically over the paradoxes of life and mistake old mysteries for freshly discovered insights:"The history of the world is a farce," announces Flaubert. "I believe that humanity has but one objective: to suffer...
Minneapolis Tribune Reporter Joe Rigert, 35, and his wife, Jan, 32, are the parents of a little league of nations: six children, ranging in age from H to 14, and in race from white to Japanese-Irish, East Indian-Mexican, white-Negro, Indian-Negro. Only one in that brood is the Rigerts' natural child. But when strangers ask the inevitable "Are they all yours?", the answer is plainly, and truthfully, affirmative...