Word: grunting
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...works rather like an indentured servant. "Old Screwballs," as Gareth refers to him, is clench-lipped, word-shy, and sclerotically set in his ways. An evening with him is an unaltering ritual of despair: one cup of tea (never two), a game of checkers with the canon, a grunt of shoptalk. Gareth's father puts on his glasses to see the paper, never his son. Yet there is a kind of love between the two, all the more painful for being inarticulate. The words that hurt the most on this final evening together are the words that...
...GRUNT is a current Marine Corps term for its infantryman...
...subtler conflict enmeshes Pizarro and Atahuallpa. The existential hero of nothingness encounters the Rousseauistic myth of the innocent child of nature, the noblest savage of them all. David Carradine plays the Inca with marmoreal stoicism, and Shaffer gives him a primitive sign-and-grunt language that sometimes reduces the son of the sun to the son of Tondeleyo. The cynic in Pizarro becomes enthralled by the savior in Atahuallpa, who has a shining conviction that his godhead will raise him from the dead. Pizarro dreads but courts the great Inca's murder. If Atahuallpa is resurrected, might not Christ...
...come by he began to realize as, groggy and red-eyed from an all-night flight, he stepped off the plane at Rio to meet the press and the heat. Both proved overpowering. Expected to exclaim about the charms of the carioca moças, Mike could only grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned on him. Filming a scene where they were supposed to kiss, the chimp suddenly sank his teeth into Mike. It took 18 stitches to reattach Tarzan...
...free speech, we just don't have anything to say.") everyone laughs in unison. In-joke laughter is different. First there's a high peal of feminine laughter. Then that dies down while the girls turn to explain to their dates what's so funny. Finally a low grunt of masculine approval rings in and then everyone shuts up for the next joke...