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...whether a hippopotamus is 'frustrated' or not?" asked the mammalologist. "You may offer him some hay and then take it away just before he takes a big bite, and he may then growl, grunt, squeal, or do whatever a hippopotamus does, but that does not necessarily mean he's 'frustrated'," he added...
...fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride up and down in a red plush, heel-length smoking jacket, scratch his peruke, suck on a long-stemmed pipe, and grunt. It all gets a little eerie, after a while...
Ugetsu is intended not as a story of real life, but as a fateful legend of the soul. Therefore, the actors keep closer than they did in Rashomon to the old symbolic style. If the greedy peasants grunt and draggle their arms like apes, it is not to say that the Japanese ever did so in real life, but rather that they assumed such attitudes in their hearts. In these terms, the painted mincing of the Lady Wakasa (Machiko Kyo, the rape victim in Rashomon), the snuffling animality of the potter (Masayuki Mori, the husband in Rashomon), the abstract dutifulness...
...hear her grunt an Italian monosyllable -"Eh!"-is better than a week in Bologna. And when she laughs, she seems to laugh out of every pore at once, as if it were just a more enjoyable way of sweating. In fact, Magnani is almost too strong for Renoir to hold. At every move she takes the stage from his main theme, a Pirandellian play on appearance and reality, theater and life; and it is just as well for the picture that she does...
After generations of heartily helloing freshmen, and an open house atmosphere during party week-ends, the Colgates made a forlorn and lonely safari through the jungle of Harvard indifference. Their cheery hails of greeting were answered (when at all) by a hurried grunt or canted eyebrow...