Word: wads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills, "to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...Squinch. Even Carew's vices serve a pragmatic purpose. He is fond of wrapping a hunk of Red Man tobacco in two sticks of Doublemint gum and popping the wad into his mouth. The critical mass bulges his cheek, giving him-he swears-a better view of the incoming pitch. "When it's tucked in there, it makes my skin tight. When your skin is tight like that, you can't squinch your eye, which means more of your eye is on the ball. It's important not to squinch when you're up there...
Meanwhile, Brandeis beat Harvard yesterday to raise its record to 19-2 and that team is going to (get this) the Division THREE playoffs. Pardon me while I swallow my wad of chewing tobacco...
...bathroom sequence from The Conversation and a manic chase scene from a long line of films. But he steals with style, and this movie has what these detective stories always required: laughs, suspense and the romantic angle. In this business these days, what looks like a bulging wad of potential often delivers about as much as a grifter's bill fold--an alluring top card that covers a bunch of hay. But in this one all the jake is up front...
...runs into his family priest during his getaway, one suspects he might repent. No need to, though, because the good curate turns out to be a master crook himself. The hypocrisy of it all sounds funny, but Malle's somber colors and slow pace stop the irony like a wad of lint in our throats. This should be a black humor giggle-fest, but nobody is laughing...