Squinch & Corbeling

 









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–noun Architecture. 

a small arch, corbeling (支柱結構), or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire. 



–verb (used with object) 

1. to contort (the features) or squint.

2. to squeeze together or contract. 



–verb (used without object) 

3. to squeeze together or crouch down, as to fit into a smaller space.





　

Perhaps inspired by the British bad-girl installation artist Tracy Emin, Evelyn—so we soon discover—keeps a video camera trained on her bed, creates her own mini Warhol films, and speaks approvingly of a performance piece that involved the artist finger-painting with her own menstrual blood. 



(So why wasn't this disruptive vixen called "Lilith"?) 



Evelyn is a cartoon menace who not only [braids] her hair in two charming little horns but also accessorizes her Che Guevara T-shirts with Mao buttons. Affecting a buzz-saw purr and squinchy smile, Weisz is nothing if not mannered, but then her part is all about acting. 





stodgy

a stodgy Victorian [novel]

a stodgy business [suit]

Depp's leisurely quest leads through a [posh], [stodgy] landscape of libraries, lecture halls, and back-alley biblio [troves] atingle [with] hissed warnings

resin

amber

The members of the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, by contrast, are [preserved] in amber

cellulose

ester

varnish

lacker

lacquer

The speech tended to lacquer [over] the [terrible] conditions. 

I was also reminded of the brothel client's little lacquered [box] in Bunuel's "Belle de Jour"

Mezzanmine



fulcrum

Pic's [fulcrum] is a roadside diner

incipient

inchoate

an inchoate [mass] of ideas on the subject. 

Brolin’s work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses [roiling] inside his sorry character.

Like Danny, the movie fulminates with [inchoate] thoughts and proceeds with more energy than coherence.

plonk

variant of plunk 

To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument).

plunked the [money] down on the counter. 

plunked onto the [couch] with a sigh of relief. 

the [stasis] of the visuals means it plays like a piece of legit [plonked] in the middle of the movie. 

plank

plank and [platform]

The main plank in his [election] campaign is tax reform.

We suspect that the new vice-president walked the plank because of a personality clash.

It is a testament like the words that Christopher carved into [planks] in the wilderness.

plaque

And at home, in one room, alone in the center in the room, the hand in formaldehyde, with a plaque: My hand 1940-1972.

Convulsion