Word: petulante
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Fact or Fiction? Perhaps it is better to read the book as fiction; Hemingway recommends just that in an introduction where he says, ironically, that it "may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Take his account of Scott Fitzgerald. The indictment-by-anecdote is irresistibly funny...
The Times had something. In the spy business, Wynne seems to have been a petulant amateur. He was organizing exhibits of British industrial goods behind the Iron Curtain when the Foreign Office (which still officially denies it) pressured him into service as a courier. Wynne shuttled between British intelligence and...
Miss Milgrim's wild black hair, marvelously petulant mouth and expressive eyes make her Electra visually right. And aside from first-night nervousness and occasional unsureness with her hands, her performance as the sister who is at once compassionate and brutal matches the effectiveness of her looks.
Pinter makes arresting drama out of platitudes. His characters are listless nobodies who prattle witlessly about the weather, the neighbors, about eating and sleeping. Cooped up in wretched little rooms, they fondle material possessions and mull over memories like savages, so drugged by habit that paltry incidents pass for news...
Steve, a hippic musician currently shacked up with a stripper named Barbara Seville, is accosted by Natalie in a Union hiring hall. "Were was it now?" he muses lecherously. "Grossingers? Brooklyn? The Catskills?" "Never mind that!" hisses Natalie, every inch the petulant mousketeer. "I'm going to have a baby...