Word: pattering
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...beautiful wife (Tilda Swinton) and recently emerged from 20 years in the Secret Service "without ever discharging my weapon" - which is as sure a clue at the firearm of the wall in the first act of an Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid down for all their actors: "to channel your inner knucklehead...
...down to the present day. Catalans like to think of their culture as both older than most of Spain's (Barcelona was a great medieval city when Madrid was mud huts) and newer as well -- the roof on which the rain of north European avant-gardes fell before its patter reached the rest of Spain. If there's one artist who exemplifies this, it's Miro, in whose work the archaic and local got fused to the new and unpredictable, with scarcely a cushion between the two. Miro's ''internationalism'' was largely the result of fame and an art-distribution...
...afford clearances for pop songs, Mackenzie papered the soundtrack with rock and doo-wop numbers written by Anthony Hilder and performed by his group The Revels (one of whose songs, "Comanche," is played in Pulp Fiction.) All the dialogue from TV shows and movies, all the commercials and DJ patter, Mackenzie's team made that up too. Nearly four years after it was begun, the film had its premiere at the 1961 Venice Film Festival and was bought by a U.S. distributor, but it was licensed only in a 16mm version to schools and churches. It never received a proper...
...realized that you're not satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated businesswoman. The Girl's Guide is best for female neophytes, who will welcome its empowering patter: "Don't accept that you are the girl who never gets what she wants. Instead, become the girl who makes it happen for herself." Friedman and Yorio are generally less concerned with closing the gender gap (women earn 77¢ for every $1 earned by men) than with inspiring readers...
...will destroy us. Beware the Widener tunnels, lest they collapse upon us, entombing us in lost literary works. Walk with fear and humility past Memorial Church—the bells themselves may be spies. Tread softly past the alarmed busts in Annenberg—listen closely for the pitter-patter of their ivory feet. Touristas, avert your wide eyes from the sparkling allure if the secular stained glasses (the largest collection in the world!) for they may shatter and mercilessly shank you. To death. All we can count on now, dear readers, is one another. The Science Center catastrophe...