Word: schmutz
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...Bettie was a marvel, shaking her tush in those Klaw non-music videos. (Astonishingly, there was no music in the downtown lofts that made do as her movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude...
...like it when I call you ‘Thees’ anymore. Sorry! “Hey, Thesis,” then. Are you feeling alright? Your binder is a little crooked, let me fix that...Oh, and look at this, you’ve got schmutz down your front! I’ll wipe it off, stand still for a sec...ah! Sorry, sorry, I’ll stop fussing...
...Bettie was great, shaking her tush in those Klaw non-music videos. (Astonishingly, there was no music in the downtown lofts that made do as her movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude for still...
...barbarism. It would be philistine. After all, the Weimar republic was something of a laboratory of modernity--it represents a self-conscious break with the culture that nurtured Otto von Bismarck and his moustached ilk. In 1926, in fact, the Reichstag voted for a censorship program that would suppress Schmutz and the alien, commercial cosmopolitanism that are so prevalent in Weimar visual culture...
...match Flynn's backslapping style. When a motorist honks approval at an intersection in East Boston, she shouts, "I love you," then totters after a voter on her 4-in. heels. Suddenly, she stops short, whirls around and asks her campaign adviser, Jim Spencer, "Do I have schmutz on my face...