Word: cribbed
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...made his first trip abroad, came back resolved that he must liberate himself from the prison of Koranic tradition, adopt those European ways that would not conflict with what was essential in the Moslem code. When his wife first became pregnant, he went to Paris to bring back a crib, diapers, sterilized bottles, baby scales and a French midwife, explaining: "I want my son's umbilical cord cut in the 20th century manner...
...suggest you applaud the Enterprise's editorial gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform a far higher duty to civilization than all the editors of weeklies who are fretted for integration, gambling and their own "good name...
...master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
...camera roots like an indifferent hog through a heap of white trash in the Deep South. In a rotting mansion on the Mississippi flats, in an upstairs room filled with dolls and hobbyhorses and empty Coke bottles, a ripe-bodied young woman lies curled in a wrought-iron crib and sucks her thumb as she sleeps. This is Baby Doll Carson McCorkle ¶Carroll Baker), who "had a great deal of trouble with long division . . . and never got past the fourth grade." In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty pajamas even though...
...athaletic.") He really gets going in the swing, where the camera closes in on her face while his hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take a nap ("Yew c'd curl up and let the slats daown"). Later, when the heroine murmurs "I feel cool and rested, rested and cool for the first time in my life," it may strike some moviegoers that the language of Tennessee Williams, no less...