Word: cocking
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Perhaps the most endearing portrait is that of the eccentric Richardson. Directing Guinness in an Old Vic production of Richard II, Sir Ralph had only a few words of advice. Holding up a sharpened pencil, he said, "Play it like this pencil, old cock." Guinness admits that he was not greatly illuminated, and his Richard was a failure of which he is still ashamed...
Comedy, social commentary--call it what you will--Joshua is mediocre schlock Schlockhas many relatives, easily understood by attaching a prefix to define precisely the derived form's relationship to the tradition. I cite several of the most exemplary: rock-schlock (Spinal Tap), cock-schlock (Porky's has this covered) and lock-schlock (prison classics like the oh-so-shameful The Longest Yard...
...President told a crowd in Media, Pa., "If a gypsy looked into a crystal ball and said, 'You can win this election with a lot of votes or win by just a few votes but get a sympathetic Congress,' I would choose the latter." With a cock of the head and flashing his folksy grin, Reagan added, "Help spread the word, get out the vote. And if you can, well, win those races for the Gipper...
...real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
...dive toward the Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...