Word: jokingness
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Gentle father. Her father is a warm gentle businessman who spends all of his time reading. Her mother says, "Boris, are you going to read in this kitchen? We will have Lermontov in the sauerkraut ... Mamma glowered. Sauerkraut was no joking matter. This was the creation of the world going...
Around mid-day, the Channel Five news team shows up to do some filming, but not of the roadeo. The woman tells Grinnell, "I want to interview five drivers--any five will do." A request goes out on the public address system, and five men show up, laughing and joking...
Towne's script makes a nod to another Los Angeles mystery writer, Ross MacDonald, most markedly in its use of familial trauma in the plot solution. But it is to Chandler that the movie is very deeply indebted. No film has ever succeeded quite so well as Chinatown in...
I made it through the morning, joking about the mix-up and getting a lot of mileage out of the situation as well as some curious stares from classmates and proud parents. My friends assured me that my diploma would be in its folder (it was), and before long the...
The spring of '64 saw 200 students sit in at the Federal Building in Boston, demanding federal protection for civil-rights marchers in Alabama, the first of many sit-ins at the JFK building. It saw 30,000 people rally on the Boston Common to support the marchers, the first...