Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minor and the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, which together made up half of the program, Norris was the main event. He had obviously established a rapport with the music and was excited about performance. There were flourishes in his music and motions. At the end of a phrase he would sweep his arms up as if to gesture to the orchestra and say, "Now it's your turn." The piano concerto is one of those pieces that is supposed to put all the listeners in awe of the pianist. It is fun to hear, and maybe even more...
...funniest scenes, Bobby, now in college on scholarship, tackles his professor, a hilarious academic look-alike of Colonel Sanders of "Kentucky Fried Chicken" fame, for insulting his mother. At times,The Waterboy seems to be a vicious Forrest Gump antithesis, quoting directly the famous prefatory phrase "My momma always say...," clinched with bayou-stupidity rather than innocent, simple wisdom...
...football team isdiscouraged and defeated in the first half withoutits star player, but rejoices when the slobbering,poodle-brained hero prances onto the field. Thebest part of the final scenes is the presence ofRob Schneider as a dirty, smelly and perverteddrunk that squeezes riotous laughter out of therepeated phrase...
pret aller: (adj.) a French phrase meaning "ready to go." "Hold on, wait for me to get my fishnets and stilettos on and I'll be pret aller...
...terms of marriage have been redefined for us, mostly by our parents. Thanks to them, we, unlike any generation before us, can actually expect to get divorced. Even though none of us, of course, thinks it will happen to us, "until death do us part" will be an empty phrase for over half of those who utter...