Word: itchings
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...make great capital of abstract terms in order to mask their chief occupations. So men speak publicly today of "pacification" when they really mean violence and death-dealing on a large scale. But the rhetoric of activist groups also has its seductions and dangers. Sometimes the language masks an itch for revenge and violence, and contains nothing new, whether by way of spiritual resources or imagination. The most accurate thing that can be said about it is that it has despaired of communication...
...they find out soon enough. Masters tells them they're drunk, and they are-happy drunk. He tells them they itch, and they scratch uncontrollably. He tells them the people next to them smell terrible. They sniff disgustedly...
...itch and squirm of sex, How can she foresee...
Exhibit A: Paris in the Month of August. A salesman (Charles Aznavour) becomes a summer bachelor when his wife and children take to the shore. Along comes the predictable blonde (Susan Hampshire) to scratch his seven-year itch. Her giddy giggle soon fills the sound track like a klaxon. The two go off on a picture-postcard tour of such out-of-the-way places as the Louvre, the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries, marking this second-rate souvenir "For export only." Aznavour's tragicomic twinkle shines through in such films as Shoot the Piano Player...
...HARDLY wait. They are decked out in their best, a bit high, very nostalgic. You have the excited anticipatory feeling of meeting old close friends, and of finally talking to less known ones. You want to embrace each and itch to see which others are around the next corner which have not come...