Word: carpingly
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...however, will carp about the beauty of Renoir's production. From the very introduction of the credits at the beginning he shows perfect taste. The color photography is excellent; the musical background is oriental and exciting without sounding like Hollywood Baghdad-music; a thousand details contribute to the dominant impression of beauty. For this alone one should sell one's patrimony for a reserved seat at the Beacon Hill. --John R. W. Small...
...reserves the right to poke, pry, carp, coo and criticize at will...
Purists will probably carp at some changes, e.g., at least two of the play's characters have disappeared, leaving their crucial lines to be read by others. But ironically, the picture's weakness lies in its fidelity to Rostand's design rather than in the liberties it takes with his text. Flamboyantly theatrical, the play is given to such bald devices as the balcony scene in which Cyrano gulls Roxane into taking his voice for Christian's. Such broad strokes of old-fashioned footlight hokum seem glaringly magnified by the realistic eye of Director Michael Gordon...
...game fish, says Fishing, is "any fish caught on rod and line, putting up any fight, and not thrown back in disgust by the angler." That includes even the "detested, despised, and berated" carp, a "keen-brained root-eater" as hard to hook as a confirmed bachelor...
Procedure: pick a spot in a stream or lake and lower a pail of chopped vegetables to it every day for a week. By that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened...