Word: squirrelled
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...down-stairs and crouches at the end of the hall, opposite Caldwell, trying for a final shot. She has stopped conducting and is listening to the singers. She gazes around the hall till her eyes meet Rick's and rest in a lethargic stare. He is frozen like a squirrel near a human but he doesn't shoot. He is waiting for her to perform again. After five minutes he gives up and walks out--he can't be late for his next assignment...
White, a bachelor, now rents an apartment in the fashionable Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, after rooming briefly with Joe Greene. The separation reflects the general state of the relationship between the four defenders: cordial but not intimate. "I couldn't live with Joe," White explains. "He'd put on music late at night...
...flaws, Ullmann has a thin voice with a narrow, monotonous range. In a Bergman film, with its still, deep pauses, this is not immediately apparent, but onstage it becomes a cumulative irritant. Ullmann's English is good, but not quite good enough. Taking the skylark and "little squirrel" imagery of the play literally, she skitters about the stage like a sandpiper. This does not destroy Nora's coquettishness, but it certainly diminishes it. There seems to be an arbitrary rhetoric of motions with which Ullmann plays the role. When she fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will...
...being a freak. You're trying to get information other people don't want you to have. I don't make deals, I don't party and drink with sources, and I don't play a game of leaks. I read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story. When he finishes you feel like...
...lower-middle-class British household, also inhabited by a small girl named Arabel. Mortimer's unquenchable hope is to find diamonds in the family coal scuttle, but he soon branches into carpet eating, letter spearing and serving as unwilling accessory to a diamond heist conducted by a trained squirrel and a pair of inept gangsters...