Word: dresser
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...ransacked the house and loosed a fusillade of obscenities that they threatened to follow with bullets. They forced the couple to lie on the bed face down and handcuffed them. The leader of the group held a cocked revolver to Giglotto's head while the others rummaged through dresser drawers and closets...
Aunt Augusta crowds the apartment she shares with Wordsworth with souvenirs of her continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...
...Encouraged by Bertolucci's improvisatory style of filming, Brando pitched in on the shaping of scenes and characterizations, working out most of his own English dialogue and in a few cases carrying the sex scenes even farther than Bertolucci had intended. "Something is up," said Brando's dresser to an assistant producer one day. "He's taking this seriously." What was up was Bertolucci's request that Brando reverse the usual actor's approach to a role. "Instead of entering the character, I asked him to superimpose himself on it," says Bertolucci. "I didn...
...after having slipped on some thought of Nietzsche's or Strindberg's or Freud's. He was addicted to dramatic stunts-drums in The Emperor Jones, mannequins in The Hairy Ape, masks in The Great God Brown. Something of a Broadway swell and a nifty dresser, he aspired to be a flashy man-about-words, a self-described poet, no less, and some of his highfalutin attempts along these lines make one cringe...
...math whiz and an all-around athlete. After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks, maroon sports jacket, pink tie and shirt), he is married and the father of two children: a daughter, 13, and a son, 11. As pilot of the command ship America, he will remain in orbit around the moon while Schmitt and Cernan explore the lunar surface. Unlike...