From Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American Think: irony, emotional aloofness, deliberate pacing. ( actually not in the dictionary althoug...

From Orson Welles (1915-1985) American Think: cinematic pyrotechnics done to technical and dramatic perfection. ( weird that they offer...

From Frank Capra (1897-1991) American Think: celebration and eventual triumph of the average guy, sentimentalism. (Probably the first ...

From Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) British-American Think: silent-movie slapstick, tears-and-laughter pathos. (Score points with film afi...

From Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990) British-American Think: nail-biting suspense, droll humor, cool patrician blondes. (One of the few dire...

Perspire derives from the Latin spirare , "to blow" – suggesting vapors released by the body. It emerged in the 1600s as a ...

When we dig into picnic , we find the word pick . Picnic comes from the French pique-nique , which probably came from piquer , meaning ...