JMW Turner stabs and spits at his canvas.
The player retaliated moderately, which brought the following curt but unfortunate rebuke from our then manager, Gordon Milne: "If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've just got to swallow it".
The Toronto film festival, of which Midnight Madness is one of the programming strands, has achieved critical mass: a gravitational vortex that sucks in the Hollywood A-list, spits out Oscar-winners and facilitates galaxy-sized deals.
Timothy Spall plays seascape painter JMW Turner, who spits on his canvases, doctors the work of his rivals and tethers himself to a mast, like a dilapidated Ulysses, so as to view the wind and waves up close.
It's satisfying in the same way as if you play a toff," he spits out the word with relish.
"We're miserable and we ain't doing that shit," she spits when asked to assist in one singer's routine.
"So are you!" Jane spits.
"It's flat-out greed," he spits.
In fact, in this part of the spectrum, it is dimmer even than the moon, which spits a few of them off when its rocks are hit by cosmic rays.Through a gamma-ray telescope, therefore, the sky looks nothing like the familiar sea of points that human eyes perceive at night.
A machine spits out a ticket and your diarist, who is not as young as he was, sprints for it.Big mistake.
In one memorable scene, Mr Eastwood's character spits tobacco juice on the suit of a snake-oil salesman, suggesting he use his miraculous cure-all medicine to remove the stain.
