Word: splutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father is actually a stepfather (Sergei Bondarchuk), and in the film's first episode he strides into the boy's world like a giant out of a fairy tale. Huge-eyed with fright, the child watches the giant as he splutters prodigiously at the bathroom washbowl. Working up his courage, he inquires in a very small voice: "Are you going to whip me?" The man replies: ''Why should I?" A light wakes in the child's eyes. When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter...
...Nervous. In five versions of Seated Woman, the woman hardly made an appearance at all. In many canvases the once meticulous Miró had left hairs from his brushes imbedded in the paint. What did all this splatter and splutter mean? Plainly, the new Miró was mad at the world, and he was letting his emotions boil over. "I used crayon," says he of some thin colored lines in one painting, "because it was more nervous, Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! Like a knife!" Commented the weekly France-Observateur sadly: "Disappointed spirits will conclude that this...
What the Carnival proves is that Thurber can be as funny when spoken as when read. There are sketches in it that sag considerably, and ideas that splutter. But its low points are not unlike those in any better-grade intimate revue. What is vastly more important is that its high points-and they are many-are uniquely wonderful...