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Two For the Show: Academy Award Filmwriters Harry Brown and Robert Pirosh
by James P. White
Excerpt - I like words. I like fat buttery words such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave "v-words" such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. More...


Typewriter, Photo-Collage, 2003 by Jules White

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