Word: gratings
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...last minutes of the film do grate somewhat. When Tony dies, you would think the movie would have the decency to end soon thereafter. But the camera lingers, showing closeups of everybody's acne, until much of the drama is drained from the scene...
...best, this sort of thing produces a sheepish smile, and at worst, a wince of embarrassment. And De Vries is no more able than any other punmaker to hold back his worst. Possibly De Vries' worst refers to a "great" comedian: "Harry has many things that make him grate...
When a novel begins, "Vangel Griffin was a mass-produced member of the middle middleclass. The first 28 years of his life were stamped, cut out and patterned like a piece of processed cheese," three people deserve instant commiseration. The first is the author, who is obviously about to grate a very stale piece of thematic cheese. The second is the reader, who is only too familiar with the fictional conformists in flim-flannel suiting. The third is the hero himself, for whom the author has such clear contempt that all he can look forward to is two or three...
...that everything went according to plan. Jack Kennedy's working headquarters was the drawing room of his Georgetown home. There, a wood fire in the grate, a toy donkey belonging to his daughter Caroline in the corner, a book about Congress and Government spending at his elbow, Kennedy met visitors, discussed his problems and his hopes...
...peekaboo" style, with hands carried high in front of his face, which has been criti cized on the ground that it inhibits his punching power. Says he: "You'd be sur prised at the number of times I've felt their gloves hit my gloves and how grate ful I was that my gloves were there...