Word: gerund
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...Gervais’s avatar to Fred Flintstone, but I believe the real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g”), which animated clips of stand-up comedy routines. That’s not the greatest of legacies...
...title of Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, is a little misleading. The gerund suggests that the woman who went from obscurity to the GOP ticket to the exit door of the Alaska governor's mansion in less than a year is still on a journey toward rogue...
...chaos of city life, the comic messiness of sex. Even a judiciously censored version will inevitably tilt toward the fantasy. TBS's Sex is a fine, perceptive comedy; it's just not quite the same fine, perceptive comedy. The difference is the difference between making love and a certain gerund I can't write here. Both are wonderful things. But we all know they're not the same...
...ways in which writers Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin escalate the conflict often bend plausibility, and director Roger Michell sometimes kicks the melodrama into fantasyland. But at heart this parable, well acted by a veteran cast, is one of those serious "gerund movies" (Pushing Tin, Falling Down) about the scars we leave on the folks we dash past in our rush to do our job. Their world disintegrates, and all we notice, for a second, is the puff of smoke behind...
Lately, the titles themselves have become inscrutable and genuinely unsymbolic. Despite the critical acclaim for the movie, to what exactly does the title "Reservoir Dogs" refer? A particularly glaring category embraces those titles that combine a gerund and a person's name. The first of these were acceptably succinct, e.g. "Educating Rita" and "Eating Raoul." Not too difficult to figure out what these films were about, no. But then, a couple of years ago, came that cinematic treasure known as "Regarding Henry." So, it's a film about Henry. What about Henry? No one could possible know...