Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike picking the nose or chewing gum or other disgusting quirks that one can merely ignore, smokers literally force others present to participate, whether they like it or not. The visible detritus of smokers, the world's rudest people, is also noxious, since they consider the world their ashtray...
...Barber of Seville (which comes in the first half) is a comedy, in which the intelligent barber aids a romantically inclined count (James Bundy) to gain the hand of the object of the count's affection, stealing the beautiful Rosina from under the nose of her nasty guardian (Ralph Zito). All ends well, he who laughs last laughs best, and--though we are left with a measure of sympathy for the ward-less guardian--the curtain closes on the first half with great good humor...
...gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package.) Truffaut does...
...credits to Chile have not only replaced official bilateral and multilateral loans as Chile's principal sources of external financing, but far surpassed them in importance to the military junta. The tremendous influx of private bank loans since 1976 gave the Pinochet regime a green light to thumb its nose at international pressure designed to improve the human rights situation in Chile...
...what O'Hara himself calls the carnivorous sharks below. Shark fights serve as metaphor for the cynical, sordid goings' on between the lawyer, his berserk business partner and the aloof, gorgeous Hayworth. Welles, despite himself, gets caught up in the carnage, dragged in by unrequited adoration for Hayworth, a nose for adventure, a soul filled with romanticism and nothing particularly better to do. The denouement of the murder mystery is as subtle and complex as the one in "The Big Sleep," and hauntingly handled. But even more memorable is what Welles does with his peerless sense of theatrical cinematography; some...