Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean-louis Barrault's famous, pantomimed re-enactment of an attempted pocket-pick, his face frozen in existential melancholy, is one of the most gaspingly, startlingly, fascinatingly magnificent scenes in world cinema. Beautiful, hilarious, tragic, one of the greatest movies ever made...
...bartender and the security guards had long since passed out, leaving me along with the Master as he extracted a creased sheet of yellow paper from his rumpled suit pocket...
...party thinks I should stay on, I will again accept that responsibility. But if the party believes that the role should go to someone else, I will return to the base, my party card in my pocket, and work once again as a militant for the victory of socialism and of Communism...
...pains, Cowley recalls, "I was . . . excoriated in The Daily Worker and caricatured in The New Masses (as a soldier with a whisky flask in his hip pocket and a chamberpot on his head, offering a fascist salute to J.P. Morgan...
...added that she would consider making up the pay difference to the undergraduate teaching fellows out of her own pocket if the proposal were implemented...