Word: swish
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...trust," complains Pat. Craig Gilbert "left out all the joyous, happy hours of communication and fun." "It's a caricature," says Lance, who is already writing his own version of the filming. "My father is perpetrated as a stagger-on drunk and I'm shown as a swish...
...downtown so that they can taste the drama of the big city, just the way they would back in Cleveland or Chicago or New York. At dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon-sparkly sidewalk...
...some extravagant swordplay, the scene bursts into a Shakespearean streetfight. Hamlin's careful blocking makes every drunken soldier's drunken move part of one grand theatrical effect--and everything meshes neatly behind Cassio's supremely pathetic disclaimers of intoxication. Half the tension of the scene is in the swish of swords and the calculated pounding of boots. Shakespeare played to the limit...
...much of an accent to be held accountable at all times for their words. In contrast, Ralph Martin contributes an arch bit as a homosexual art collector who multiplies the confusion--and, in these days of gay lib, his ability to get away with a lisp and a swish attests to a great degree of style. Kazarus reappears as an immigrant repairman and Melissa Mueller shows up again as Clea, a second girlfriend whose exact motivation--if you're even inclined to bother about such matters after her most striking entrance--could be slightly troublesome. This time McCleary...
...Your article on the Jesus people [June 21] was good news. But I read the words of the doubting people with impatience. They want to see mature faith instantly, as if souls were like so much freeze-dried coffee just waiting for the hot water and the swish of the spoon. I hate to see these hard hearts jumping in to squelch a new batch of turned-on people. Faith is an ugly thing to nonbelievers. It hurts to hope for something as big as universal love. It's a pain worth having...