Word: nosey
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...down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
...Cliffie put it, "The girl across the hall is writing her thesis and I'm dating my nosey next door neighbor's brother. Besides, I've never yet had a phone conversation that would set anything on fire. Whether Buildings and Grounds likes it or not, I'm afraid that the long cord is here to stay...
...turned out to be the most fierce; Berwick and an assistant have been badly pecked. Berwick has taught the gulls to fly at an actor's head, clobber him with a wing, and circle back for another pass (or a retake). But his favorite is a crow named Nosey, which he has trained to fetch his car keys, bring the morning paper, even put a cigarette in his mouth and light it for him. Berwick can start Nosey half a block away from the camera and get him to fly right into the lens...
Many members would insist on a nosey Council, a constant gadfly. Still others would have the Council act as a service group, initiating conferences, information agencies, and prospective-student services. A few students see the Council as no more than a hot-bed of amateur politicos. The Council does have its share of amateur politicians, whose antics create a misrepresentative picture of the organization as a whole. However many Council members, including some of its leaders, find that ambitious college-wide activities provide the best outlet for their ambitions; and this fact produces many of the Council's most valuable...
...forces of Philistinism, pulls up his anchor and sails into the Thames. He passes the side of a huge freighter, and thinking of a new vision, contorts his body like a statue of Mercury as he blocks out the imaginary lines. As Jimson passes under London Bridge, Nosey, the boy, calls out to him though he knows he will be unheard: "Michelangelo, Raphael, Picasso--you're one of them, Mr. Jimson...