Word: snit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...villa in Athens. Well, I haven't had a chance to get through to her on the phone from here in Miami Beach, so I can't say exactly what transpired. With all the nasty reporters and photographers chasing her around, she must be in a terrible snit. The family and us friends are simply telling people that Christina had some business things she needed to take care of before the honeymoon, but frankly, nobody believes this. What we really think is that it suddenly dawned on her that maybe the Russians would try to steal...
...first scene, taking in the surrounding beach area, it conveys with great subtlety the oncoming danger. DePalma stages the most powerful action sequence, the escape of Gillian from the parapsychic institute, in slowmotion, lingering over all the deaths. He characterizes his performers by how beautifully they bleed; a little snit in Gillian's school has blood dribble from her nose all over her lunch, but Carrie Snodgrass' blood splashes lovingly, lyrically over a windshield. Clearly, the more DePalma relishes his characters, the more he puts into their deaths. It would be nice to know something about his childhood and psychological...
...Without me you're a nothing," he once told Ali. "Nobody would know your name...Where would you be...without me doing your fights...? Yes, I made you." Trying to interview Sandy Koufax on short notice, he says, "Sandy, you were just a damned snit from Brooklyn sitting in the corner of the dugout surrounded by the great ones when I first met you. You owe me this...
...movie traipses through Streisand's housewifely fantasies, which range from an anthropological African safari to an interview with Castro, who turns out, in a particularly infelicitous touch, to be a lust-maddened transvestite. Eventually Streisand is subjected to a sort of snit that passes for a nervous breakdown. She packs kids and husband (David Selby) out of the apartment and takes stock, concluding that what she really needs is this one afternoon away from the family, then a great many more children...
...will probably go for him, it's becoming the liberal city," predicted Molly Ivins, editor of the Texas Observer, one of the state's few liberal newspapers. "The press down here is incredibly backward, though," Ivins added. "They're not just against McGovern, they've taken off on a snit against him. The Dallas Morning News has been particularly...