Word: poked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the vitality and excitement of the place will remain intact. This is why the museum is such a key element in the plan. It will provide warm memories and the feeling of his presence, almost as if he is actually there, guaranteeing large numbers of people to poke around and keep the place alive. Two million people a year. One is tempted to conjecture in all this that the memorial is really being designed by a committee of aging advance men who think that the measure of President Kennedy's greatness in history will depend on the size...
...story is a poke-in-the-ribs at the absurd histrionics of the Bliss family (a quasi-retired actress, her hack-writing husband, and their two long-suffering children) who invite four similarly foolish characters for a weekend in the English countryside. The plot unravels with the reception and treatment of the guests, and winds up with the visitors making a furtive escape after one memorable night...
...there is a nice element of nostalgia for the bad old guys in Crazy Joe. In addition, he was nothing if not a veteran Mafia soldier, so there is ample opportunity to poke around glumly tasteless mansions inhabited by sundry god-fatherly types. And there they are, nibbling- their ethnic viands as they order up colorful executions of errant associates. Such sequences should satisfy Cosa Nostra buffs, who seem to form a significant portion of the movie audience today. Finally, as every tabloid reader must remember, Crazy Joe contracted toward the end a loose alliance with black mobsters - also outsiders...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen
...effect is one of comic frustration and absolute insecurity in a universe that conspires with one's worst self to make the sane, simple life impossible. This is best illustrated in a scene where K. sits at a table and trys to read. The actors crouching behind him each poke an arm through the crook of K.'s elbow: the hands begin to attack each other while K. looks helplessly on, believing his own body to be rebelling against itself...