Even though it made me sick just to look at her rotten stinking face, she wasn't such a bad bitch," Max, a bitter, thuggish patriarch, says of his late wife, in Pinter's legendary 1965 work, "The Homecoming".
The actors bring dexterous ease to the hairpin turns from geniality to bile within a single speech, as when Mr. Dennehy's Max says, in tones of fond nostalgia, that his wife "wasn't such a bad woman," only to complete the thought by adding, "even though it made me sick just to look at her rotten stinking face".
Turn to Harold Pinter's The Homecoming 350 years later and you find a similar vitality as the chauvinist ex-butcher, Max, says of his late wife: "Even though it made me sick just to look at her rotten stinking face, she wasn't such a bad bitch".
"The economy's terrible, it's rotten -- look," Robin C. Treen, a commercial real estate broker, said with sarcasm as he drove a visitor around.
Also much in evidence is Lamott's trademark insightfulness, as when a character spies a rotten tree: "Look!
Rotten flowers look the best, according to the opinions of some.
Almost nobody would complain to the patient about how rotten she looks.
4.33am GMT Wicket!! Yuvraj c Morgan b Finn 0 Caught at point off a rotten, slightly surprised looking fend away that looks as if it came off the back of the bat as if he didn't expect or fancy Finn's pace at all.
His ragged, rotten zombies truly look the part.
But soon River Birch's deals began to look rotten.
