Word: flashlight
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During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
...turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through the coil for a fraction of a second, most of the pulling power switches in an instant from one end of the magnet to the other. A few flashlight batteries can supply enough juice-not nearly so much as would be needed by an equivalent electromagnet...
...Mahal of the bayous" at a time when he had a record $73 million deficit, insisted that all this Greek Revival splendor is just not for him: "So far as I'm concerned, all I need is my bedroom with a rocking chair, a flashlight and coon dog." As for pictures, said Davis, "the only ones I'd want would be a picture of my mother and father and a picture of the Bach Springs leap frog team, and go with that...
...woman calls to announce: "I'm an alcoholic. I've just poured myself a drink." The man at the other end of the line tells her to throw it out-and she does. At 4:30, an 8-year-old sitting up with a flashlight calls to describe his dog giving birth. Next a woman rings up to say that she has slashed one wrist and intends to slash the other; the man tips off the police, who beat down the door and subdue her. A gang leader calls to announce a rumble with a rival group...
...when in use, is faintly Flatbush-full of lines like "I sen tout for coffee" and "I had a friend of mine who . . ." The fourth child of a New York lawyer, he had been an actor, magician, mentalist and hypnotist when he tried his first commercial-as a talking flashlight battery-eight years ago. Soon, for another commercial that was used repeatedly, he got $1,700 instead of the $45 he had expected. He called the agency to see if there had been a mistake and, when told that there had not been, decided to enter the field...