Word: wastebasketful
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...Ford is amused by the tortoise-shell wastebasket that hangs from an armchair used by Grant. She is intrigued by two sewing tables from 1810 made by Duncan Phyfe. Small and elegant when closed, they sprout drawers and shelves like magic...
...book is for the wastebasket. A young black couple is taken on a tour down memory lane by three canny professionals (Avon Long, Josephine Premice and Joseph Attles) who are old but ageless. But there is no frost on their bones. This show comes from the tor rid zone...
...exam, and sat down and put his name on both books. He wrote the exam, filling one book, finishing just on the last page. He got up, walked to the front of the room, handed in the empty exam book, and threw the full one into the wastebasket...
...supposed to be Polish), and his mournful dachshund face looks scared as he explodes into frenzied wisecracking when his plans crumble. Pacino has some of Woody Allen's earnest ineptitude: raiding the cash registers, he tries to burn the receipts in a compulsive fit and causes a wastebasket fire that attracts passerbys. "I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody, ya understand?" he screams in a panic, upsetting a potted fern. Instead of getting out fast, he dawdles so long that he's soon surrounded by police...
...trivializes every major scene in the play. When she feeds the manuscript of Eilert's book to the flames, Ibsen has her say, "I am burning your baby." Jackson gives the line the emotional urgency of someone tossing away old telephone bills into the wastebasket. When she takes her own life with her father's pistol, it should be a stark and moving epiphany. Jackson makes it seem like a one-minute ad campaign for stricter gun control...