Out popped a chatterbox with a schnoz, whose advanced fashion sense was not intended to lure men into matrimony.
Physically, the two are far from equals: Penn's Milk is forty and short, with a big schnoz and matted wedges of hair heading uneasily in different directions; Scott Smith, played by James Franco, is tall and slender, with an angel face and a curly brown mane.
Of course, the oddballs still had to prove their worth — Rudolph cuts through the fog with his luminous schnoz, Hermey defangs the abominable snowman — in a way that would be hard to imagine today.
Clare expels through his manly schnoz a breath so heavy and poignant a Clydesdale might've breathed it.
The krill swim away with the movie, though an elephant seal, Bryan the Beachmaster (Richard Carter), or rather his exquisitely animated schnoz (technically his proboscis), has his moments.
The prime minister's opponents have now struck back on the same turf with the scheduled opening in Moscow on Saturday night of an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Nose, in which the central character — Mr. Putin — loses his manhood rather than his schnoz.
So! Say goodbye to Matisse at 5 on the schnoz and head down to the Bar Room at the Modern, Danny Meyer's excellent restaurant on the ground floor of the museum.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Five years after the last Broadway revival of Edmond Rostand's florid 1897 romance about a pining poet with an oversize schnoz, Douglas Hodge ("La Cage aux Folles") will play the brave but lovesick lead in this Roundabout Theater Company production.
