Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better still is The Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St. near the post office. It ain't Casablanca, but the American/continental selections are superb, very reasonably priced, and served up in pleasant surroundings...
...were the last time! . . . Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By ... I saved my first drink to have with you. . . Round up the usual suspects . . . We'll always have Paris. It has inspired bits of business: Sydney Greenstreet bowing graciously to Ingrid Bergman in the Blue Parrot and then with brutal abstraction swatting a fly, which for the instant becomes the moral equivalent of any refugee in Casablanca. Or the alltime triumphant moment of literal-minded symbol-banging exposition: Claude Rains dropping the bottle of Vichy Water into a wastebasket and giving it a kick, the charming collaborator...
...Crimson Co-Captain Kale Martin spotted her wide-open teammate, and with a flick of her wrist. Martin scooted the ball out of the crowd, across the crease, and onto the stick of the waiting Riordan. Riordan then flipped the ball past goalie. Tory Parrot for the game's only score...
...with Phillip. He almost mockingly cast John Cassavetes, a fellow filmmaker known for his cinema verity, in the role, while admitting that he first visualized Phillip as a Jewish American like himself. A New Year's Eve party Phillip anticipates will be "dull, pretentious and nervous" appears to parrot Mazursky's dislike of Hollywood tinsel. And when in an interview he says. "America has become kind of decadent; a lot of things have been too easy," he echoes his own screenplay of Phillip castigating Antonia and Alonzo for invading the Elysium he has created on a remote Greek isle...
When the shelling stops we run for the car and speed to the Commodore Hotel. But even the Commodore has taken a direct hit, destroying Room 617. My room was 605, so I move downstairs. Coco, the hotel parrot, is beside himself with rage at poolside, and keeps whistling the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Coco is also particularly good at imitating the sound of incoming artillery rounds, and does so to the intense annoyance of everyone...