Word: pail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those curmudgeons you grow fond of simply because he is so deadpan funny. But his sarcastic bark is a stoic camouflage for his losing bite on life. In one affecting scene, Norman goes out to pick strawberries and returns shortly with an empty pail. A memory lapse has prevented him from recognizing the old path and reduced him to a frightened child seeking the solace of a familiar face...
Exercise programs also give employees a chance to work off job and family frustrations. Chicago's Excello Press began a fitness plan a year ago after an irate pressman hurled his lunch pail into a press, causing $30,000 in damage. Now, says Excello President Gary Feldmar, "workers have a much more relaxed attitude. They can slam a racketball against the wall and pretend they're hitting their wife's head, or mine, and release tensions in a heal...
...have anything," she replied, "You need to buy a new pail...
...ploy uses the author Ledda himself to introduce the movie--he hands a shepherd's staff to the actor portraying his father--and to deliver the epilogue to his own story. Another device comes when the young Gavino (Fabrizio Forte) curses a goat for repeatedly defecating into his milk pail--and the animal responds in a surly feminine voice...
...unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...