Word: lathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tweedy Prentiss does not make as splashy an entrance as Joyce's stately, plump Buck Mulligan in his yellow dressing gown, "bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." Yet there is a strained relationship. Buck begins Joyce's stream of subversive epiphanies with a mockery of religious ritual, and Pat launches Thomas Flanagan's The Tenants of Time with a polite spoof on the rituals of orthodox history. Prentiss is a young Irish pedant, fresh out of New College, Oxford, and itching to write a book about a failed nationalist uprising...
Sometimes before I shampoo my hair I read the directions on the bottle--"lather, rinse, repeat"--and then become trapped in the infinite cycle. It often takes weeks before I am discovered and rescued...
...home, the boys are preparing an elaborate dinner, all the while chopping, mincing and braising the opposite sex as they recount their lubricious adventures. Down at the gym, the girls are working themselves into a lather on the same subject. Writer-Director Denys Arcand has worked out an amusing role reversal to enliven his intensely talkative movie about middle-aged French Canadian academics. And his actors are willing to bare their less than perfect bodies along with their less than perfect souls, thus lending credibility to their reports from the front lines of the war between the sexes...
...direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap . . . The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes . . . Call Roy and have him come up to the house and awaken HRH at 10:15 a.m. sharp if HRH is not awake by that time. With eight...
...that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with them ... In the dream it is the horse pressed against her, the rhythmic pumping of the forelegs as the animal climbs, the lather and the smell; the smell that comes in waves and pounds inside her like a pulse...