Word: fooled
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...plastic sheets that encase each capsule in a container within its own bubble. Tiny Pillar Corp. of Milwaukee (1981 sales: $2 million) is awash in stacks of new orders for its sealing machinery. Says President Ernest Goggio: "People want to buy right now. They don't want to fool around...
...first persons mingle, and time runs in either direction. In the present, a terminal patient named Judith Glazer beleaguers family and friends with hostile honesty and acrid humor: "Neither will I be wired to any of those medical busy-boxes to extend for one damned minute what only a fool would call my life. If Jesus wants me He can have me. To tell you the truth, He can probably use me." Her friend, a gifted writer named Messenger, unaccommodated by big-league literary life and politics, feels that he is second-string...
Gordie is right. It is hard, But The Shining made strangers care. And The Stand made strangers cry. And while Cujo may have only made strangers afraid of their dogs, it still made strangers fool...
...childlike confidence, as if their surroundings have been put there specifically for them to enjoy. In a typical Updike domestic scene, the young people are more cynical than their parents. Rabbit's disagreeable son Nelson sees and awkwardly ridicules his father's satisfaction with self: "Such a fool he really believes that there is a God he is the apple...
...Lion in Winter come to mind, it is purely as an illuminating contrast: in these movies, O'Toole played characters bigger than life; here, his tawdry character is so grandly portrayed that O'Toole becomes bigger than the rest of the film. Don't let the credits fool you--O'Toole takes a Swan dive but comes up playing nothing less than O'Toole. He still has that slightly pathetic, glassy-eyed stare that refuses to acknowledge the presence of either camera or audience. But this performance has a new focus. Rather than underscoring his decline by clinging to heroic...