Other contestants range from an ex-convict to an unhappy sales executive, but "lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor" (A. O. Scott).
Lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor, jumping from scene to scene, from musical number to emotional confrontation, before you can figure out what's going on.
To carp on like this is to risk coming across as the sort of irredeemable character who recurs in James Murphy's lyrical vignettes ("But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses ... ..)... ..
The salade Dombiste, consisting of moist smoked carp on a bed of greens served with carp rillettes, is a pleasant, relatively light option.
From the crinkly tissue paper behind the wrapping counter at Jordan Marsh to the smudged, painted-on mole of a girl going out to a dance hall to the ominous smell of a carp in a galvanized bucket, on its way to becoming gefilte fish, "Charity Girl" is a convincing portrait of a long-lost world.
And that his butler Cedric – a role Peter O'Toole's obituaries unfairly omitted while carping on endlessly about Lawrence Of Arabia – has a dirty secret.
The adult frogs are about three-tenths of an inch long, and a millimetre or so smaller than a carp found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
For instance, he said, characteristically carping on a minute detail, the two men had celebrated their agreement with pear brandy, and not with plum brandy as the general said.
The finest touch is a wooden bucket; on one side of it a white carp — a video, on a screen — is shown swimming around as if in a pail of water.
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Backus reeled in a mighty 27.6-pound carp on Friday and was given a choice: Kiss the fish, or kiss the Englishman who helped her bring it to shore.
