Word: snugness
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...Meyer could never have felt snug in the lavish, high-overhead, take-six-meetings-and-never-make-a-movie atmosphere of the big studios. After one more Fox film ("The Seven Minutes"), he escaped back to indie filmmaking with a meager, loyal crew and the freedom to do whatever he wanted. And what he wanted was sex. It was the '70s; sex was free for the taking; Meyer's marriage to Williams was now in the past tense. And his new obsession, Francesca "Kitten" Natividad, was just too tempting. So the old pro eventually broke his old rule...
Everyone in the village knows that close by runs a world of factories and unemployment; a little further out, migrations, cities, anonymity. To live in peace, characters create a space small enough to feel snug but wide enough to see clearly. Take, for instance, the exchange between Patrick Ryan and Ruttledge as they are erecting the rafters of a shed...
...what room she was taking—the bigger one.” Additionally, Jane claims Ashley’s parents rearranged Jane’s belongings, relegating her to a desk directly by the suite’s door. “Ashley took the desk in the snug corner,” she says. “She had the most privacy...
...world conditions (Islam, Afghanistan, international terrorism) and less enthralled with surface nonsense (O.J., Elian Gonzalez, Monica, Gary Condit), we might have avoided our current troubles. This is to imply that a few canny geopolitical decisions here and there would be all it would take to make America safe and snug...
...Snug in bubble wrap, packing peanuts and tissue paper, the utensils and gadgets that fill Julia Child’s drawers and cabinets will travel to the museum. As soon as they hit the loading dock in Washington, the boxes will go straight to an exhibit room where museum workers will unpack them in full public view. For about six months, visitors will be able to watch as each object is given its official number and is registered in the museum’s database of artifacts...