Word: wheelbarrow
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...wandering metaphorical soliloquies, the two bicker, muse, pet, and search vainly for common understandings. Their scenes together are separated by snatches of brash caricature in which "three weird sisters" babble deliriously: "Anything, Everything, Nothing, and Something were looking for eels in a tree, when along came Sleep pushing a wheelbarrow full of green mice...
Moving from the jungle was a native with elephantiasis . . . pushing a rude wheelbarrow before him. In the barrow rested his scrotum, a monstrous growth that . . . weighed more than 70 pounds and tied him a prisoner to his barrow...
Flesh-Royal: Any labukh, or musician, particularly a lobat (jazzman). One's own tachka (literally, wheelbarrow), or car. All firmennye (gone guys) and any klevaya chuvikha (classy chick). Anyone with a kusok (one G in rubles) or enough bashli (dough) for a zhelezny (terrific) night on the town and a motor (taxi) back to the khata...
Chief among the technicians is Finance Minister Walther Moreira Salles, 49. A liberal-minded banker who was twice Ambassador to the U.S., Moreira Salles has tried hard to shake Brazil out of its economic nightmare-a looming 1961 budget deficit of $600 million, with inflation rumbling into the wheelbarrow stage. Moreira Salles turned off the spinning cruzeiro presses, laid plans to slash government spending 20%, drew up a sense-making tax-reform bill. The cruzeiro free-exchange rate, fallen 33% (to 360 to the dollar) firmed up to 340 and seemed about to right itself...
Wondering how this film ever came out of Poland brings to mind the story of a Russian worker who left his plant each evening with a wheelbarrow full of sawdust. For a while the guards inspected the sawdust; finding nothing, they inspected more carefully, and finally called the NKVD. After several weeks, special security agents flew in to check the sawdust grain by grain; they too, found nothing. Weeks after the worker had been cleared of suspicion, a friend asked him what he was stealing. He answered, "wheelbarrows...