Bluebeard

Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew.”

Tell Mama!” Can you beat it?

There is nothing erotic about our relationship. I am twenty-eight years Mrs. Berman’s senior, and have become too ugly for anyone but a dog to love. I really do look like a gutshot iguana, and am one-eyed besides. Enough is enough.

backed into the war,

I have them do nothing that they did not actually do when tested on this proving ground.

“That’s all I do—that and dancing,” she said. “As long as I keep that up, I keep grief away.”

ter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness

She was a magical tamer of almost any sort of animal, an overwhelmingly loving and uncritical nurturer of anything and everything that looked half alive.

You forgot to worry about me

paintings were nothing alike except for one thing: they were about nothing but themselves