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I just about fall of the couch during the sabotaged toiletries scene - the scream that Matthau let's loose upon using the 'nasal spray' is priceless.
He should definitely go back to sitting on the couch.
I've never been quite sure about the final scene of this movie: Lenny on the couch, quietly humming to himself, seemingly at a loss as the camera lingers on him for a thoughtful moment, is he already on his way to becoming dissatisfied again now that he has attained his desire or has he finally found some peace after his battle for Kelly?
I was shocked by a brief, partial nude scene that exposed Debra Kerr's breasts (Burt Lancaster on the couch with Kerr).
Moreover,what i liked most-contrary to many people- was the end of the movie.It was unpredictable and,besides that,it is one of the few thrillers that you cannot find out the end easily.It was very interesting and made me sit tight on my couch .If you don't pay attention for a while you will "get lost".
I think this is the one that got me started on keeping everything neat and tidy and in its place!! Thanks a lot Joan!! LOL But, honestly, this is a very good film--good acting from all involved, great music, especially at the end when the final scenes are showing, and a great settee--or whatever that couch thing is---sure don't look like the furniture we ever had.
This movie is a thrill-ride and a splendid movie to watch when you feel like hunkering down on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and an icy cold coke and just relaxing.
Only for the most macho-minded couch potatoes.
It could have been an OK piece of fluff to watch on the couch if it weren't for his acting.
what i got was a crappy comedy that played like a rip-off of catch me if you can. it seemed to me like they filmed several separate "incidents" that they found funny, then remembered that films are supposed to have plots, so they threw in one scene introducing his roommate as some guy smoking pot on his couch, and then we were expected to have an emotional reaction later on in the hospital scene when he's there and malkovich is pretending not to recognize him? the subplot with the escort service went nowhere and neither did the newspaper one.
It also describes the mother, Miranda Richardson, whose spirit has been gradually destroyed by her volatile, controlling, husband, until she is reduced to a morbidly depressed alcoholic with no life beyond the couch and television.
Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption.
It is as if an untrained couch potato ran an 800-meter race with the world record-holder.
For the average post-Soviet Russian, who regained Crimea from their couch, remote control in hand, falling into line with the majority is far more appealing than rocking the boat – so much so that Russians are outright refusing to think critically about what is happening.
As this is a minority view, they often couch their arguments in scientific rather than moral terms.
Instead, they couch their opposition to Park 51 in terms of sensitivity to the aggrieved.
This reflects a broader tendency, which has been gaining traction since the end of the last century, to couch anti-Muslim rhetoric in the language of human rights, as though equal rights for women or gays were ancient Western customs that must be defended against alien religious bigotry.
As one asylum-seeker in Leeds recently put it, the program has changed her life; prior to accessing free materials at a drop-in center, she was too afraid of leakage to sit on her couch while menstruating.And yet, despite progress in helping some women, many more continue to suffer this particular injustice.
As one asylum-seeker in Leeds recently put it, the program has changed her life; prior to accessing free materials at a drop-in center, she was too afraid of leakage to sit on her couch while menstruating.
But while the economists couch their argument in language designed to play well in the US, the policy could equally be applied by other countries to defend their industries against carbon-intensive imports from America, should the US choose to be a free rider in efforts to tackle global climate change.
By contrast, nationalists couch their identity in glorification.
The marble washstand, the dressing-table, the couch, the tables, the bronze clock on the mantelpiece, the curtains and door-hangings were all costly and new.
Sitting on the star-shaped couch, waiting for her train, she looked with repulsion at those who passed in and out.
'Yes, I must clear it up and understand it,' he thought, gazing intently at the untrodden grass before him, and following the movements of a green insect that was crawling up a stalk of couch grass and was hindered in its ascent by a leaf of goutwort.
In a corner on the ground a pile of hay made a soft couch; on some old planks, placed like a table, there were bread, potatoes, and bottles of gin already opened; it was a real brigand's cavern, with booty piled up for weeks, even useless booty like soap and blacking, stolen for the pleasure of stealing.
"Captain Nemo," I told my host, who had just stretched out on a couch, "this is a library that would do credit to more than one continental palace, and I truly marvel to think it can go with you into the deepest seas."
CHAPTER 13Some FiguresA MOMENT LATER we were seated on a couch in the lounge, cigars between our lips.
"All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman H. C. Sirr!"Ned and Conseil took seats on a couch, and right off the Canadian said to me:"Sir, just what is a pearl exactly?""My gallant Ned," I replied, "for poets a pearl is a tear from the sea; for Orientals it's a drop of solidified dew; for the ladies it's a jewel they can wear on their fingers, necks, and ears that's oblong in shape, glassy in luster, and formed from mother-of-pearl; for chemists it's a mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate with a little gelatin protein; and finally, for naturalists it's a simple festering secretion from the organ that produces mother-of-pearl in certain bivalves."
The captain stretched out on a couch, and I mechanically took a seat near him, but half in the shadows.
Soon I threw myself down on a couch and picked up a book, which my eyes skimmed mechanically.
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