Word: yapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delon is appropriately repulsive as a young man in a hurry. In the scenes at the stock exchange, Antonioni finds his brokers, as Auden found them, "roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse," and he simply throws his camera to the wolves. In one scene they yap and snap and snarl and slaver into the spectator's face for five, ten, fifteen minutes of financial frenzy...
...Easy. She scratches him behind his ears, lets him run on a nice long leash, dresses to bring out the Pinscher in him, feeds him plenty of pink meat and hot mush, gives him a good warm place to sleep. Pretty soon she has trained the poor yap to fetch, carry, make spaniel eyes, sit up and beg for his supper and think all the while what a lucky dog he is. But one day somebody tells him how his wife has deliberately turned him into a lap dog, and he sets up a terrible howl. "I am a hunter...
...Next to Yap. Though all change is abhorrent to the English, small change in Britain is impossibly hard on tourists, pocket linings and computers, whose manufacturers keep their most advanced models out of the country rather than adapt them to the currency.* The British have seven separate coins, ranging from the halfpenny (pronounced haypenny) through the half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which...
...DALMATIANS. The yap-happiest curtoon fleature Walt Disney has ever whelped...
...some Dickens, suddenly turns into a minor screwball sensation. As a dog, the cur at one stroke loses all his human rights-and properties. Without money, without clothes, without shelter, without food, he begins to live the dog's life he deserves. As he wanders the streets, dogs yap at him, boys kick at him, motorists use him for target practice. A bum sells him to a sausage factory...