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...Have a" is basically used in front of anything you want to ridicule. "Don't get it bent" is the shortened form of "Don't get your nose bent," which is supposedly what happens to people when they...
...rats lethargic and depressed, another third anxious and active. The rest of the rats were left undrugged. At first the jumpy rats drank more, the lethargic ones less. Then regular fighting broke out, including wrestling between anxious and depressed rats, and boxing matches in which the contestants stood nose to nose on their hind legs and threw punches at each other. Food hoarding set in, and all the colony rats, even the undrugged, were hitting the bottle hard. By about the 25th day after the injections, when a dominant "King Rat" (the largest of the anxious rats) emerged to bully...
...need for a clearly identifiable villain. In one recent incident at an open-air bus terminal in New York City, a woman asked a pipe smoker to move downwind and seemed annoyed when he readily agreed to move. Then the wind shifted and blew a puff past her nose. "You goddam smokers!" the woman screamed. "I don't know how you do it, but you can even blow smoke against the wind...
...about life"--scenes between the two. But Shields always seems too distracted to establish a thought-providing rapport (between, clearly, two helpless victims of the same system of exploitation). When Violet's virginity is served up, Fargas stands in the corner and looks sullenly down his elegant equine nose at the degenerate bidders. But it is not clear whether his roving glance is one of condemnation or hidden lust. This could be the most telling moment in the film. But as throughout the rest of the movie, Malle neglects to give us the proper emotional preparation...
...adolescence he felt rather a misfit, as gifted children do. He went to high school in Bucharest ? a school photo shows him at twelve, the liquid gray eyes and budding prow of a nose beneath a military cap ? but, as Stein berg remembers it, "my education, my reassurance, my comportment came out of reading literature. I found my real world, and my real friends, in books." At ten, "much too early," he read Maxim Gorky; by twelve, he was devouring Crime and Punishment; from France, there were heavy doses of Jules Verne, Emile Zola and Anatole France, "whose...