Word: grating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Management and Budget who directs the preparation of the budget, has made it a point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year's budget would extend as far as five round trips to the moon. In dollar bills, the Carter...
...seem to wait around for second thoughts. Comes a Time contains deft insights ("I can't believe how love lasts a while/ And looks like forever in the first place") and the occasional turns of phrase ("In the field of opportunity/ It's plowing time again") that grate and shudder like bad brakes on a heavy...
...decided to take it out on you all, to let my hair down on some of the things happening in the sports world that really grate my cheese. You may not care, and if you don't it's probably because you don't understand. How could you? Believe me, I know your type, potty-trained at two weeks...
...character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers in the grate. Once again the Morgan Library, eschewing the theatrics with which other museums are apt to present their loan shows, has come up with an exhibition of instructively high quality...
...films, and Valentino certainly upholds this self-indulgent tradition. Russell uses a flashback structure for the narrative. The film keeps returning to shots of Valentino's various former lovers and co-stars pouring out their reminiscences alongside Valentino's corpse lying in state. Their histrionic babblings begin to grate after the first 30 minutes of the movie, and the trite sarcasms tossed out by reporters covering the funeral only compound the absurdity of these scenes. Another sequence finds Valentino behind bars on a bigamy charge. His fellow jailbirds include a couple of whores and a host of assorted low lifes...