Word: spoiling
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...what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...
Fine Thing. In Venice, Calif. Frank H. Peyton who quit driving 15 years ago because he had never got a ticket and did not want to spoil his record drew a suspended $5 jaywalking fine on his 97th birthday...
...work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five?" Giotto forgotten. Fidelman is systematically robbed and humiliated, but learns what wise men have...
...nobody knows for certain when or why the confetti battle first appeared. It's existence, however, was a fact, taken as such, termed traditional, and permitted to pass unquestioned. After all, throwing confetti was fun, so why spoil it by asking absurd questions...
Will success spoil Nikita Khrushchev...