Word: wastebasket
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...Jabbar are, in fact, distant relatives. "No one ever believed me when I said I have a great fade away jumper, and now they will," says an elated Galbraith. "We are all Keynestans now," intones the 6-foot, 9-inch Fox, tossing the College's 1983 budget into the wastebasket...
...Ingrid Bergman in the Blue Parrot and then with brutal abstraction swatting a fly, which for the instant becomes the moral equivalent of any refugee in Casablanca. Or the alltime triumphant moment of literal-minded symbol-banging exposition: Claude Rains dropping the bottle of Vichy Water into a wastebasket and giving it a kick, the charming collaborator virtuous at last...
Agnes of God, just opened on Broadway, begins with a grisly anecdote: a young nun gives birth in her convent, strangles the infant and stuffs it in a wastebasket. From this tabloid tale, John Pielmeier has fashioned a mystery play about an enduring theological riddle: the virgin birth. Who sired Sister Agnes' child? A visiting priest? A local farm hand? Perhaps God himself? To determine whether Agnes (Amanda Plummer) is fit to stand trial for the murder, the court appoints a psychiatrist, Dr. Martha Livingstone (Elizabeth Ashley), to examine her. Soon enough, Agnes' superior, Mother Miriam Ruth (Geraldine...
MAINLY, THE CUBE is a conversation piece, like the wastebasket collages of Picasso and Braque. It may or may not reflect the dimensionality of man's existence, the shape of our times, or the pretentiousness of slim gold-tipped cigarettes. A bauble that combines the simplicity of pet rocks with engineering savvy, the Cube gratifies our desire for bric-a-brac. In a society where even most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes...
Owing to a variety of ailments, the Colbert character zips about the place in a motorized wheelchair. She also slogs down brandy, smokes cigars, plants electronic bugs and starts wastebasket fires in absent-minded moments...