Beaufoy is far more outspoken: ”American blockbusters have a real stranglehold on cinemas; if it hasn’t got big stars or if it’s not a really anodyne piece of work for 18-to-24-year-olds on a Friday evening, it won’t get shown,” he says.

anodyne (adj) : capable of relieving pain [syn: analgesic, analgetic] – source: The 17-inch silver screen

But here is a concupiscent lout, at our doorstep, his member in his hand, and he proclaims: ”Later on, perhaps I’ll buy you a sandwich. Now, hike up your skirts.”

concupiscent (adj) : having sexual lust [syn: libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious] – source: Once more with indifference

What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it!

mendacity (n) : the tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity] – source: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (R2), 50:00

Sashaying around here, making a big noise like a boss.

sashay (v) 1: move sideways [syn: sidle] 2: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others [syn: swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, cock] – source: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (R2), 42:25

One of her last acts before going underground had been to co-write a how-to book on dealing with an arrest; its frontispiece showed Liberty, supine, being gang-raped by the police.

supine (adj) 1: lying face upward [syn: resupine] 2: offering no resistance [syn: resistless, unresisting] – source: The Prisoner

I’m very much a fan of JG Ballard, where you have people in this fantastically quotidian situation that goes suddenly wrong, and how people deal with that.

quotidian (adj) : found in the ordinary course of events [syn: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday] – source: Close to the Edge

A Love Supreme?: The German word for love, ”liebe,” appears climactically in the air in a glowing nimbus.

nimbus (n) 1: a dark gray cloud bearing rain [syn: nimbus cloud, rain cloud] 2: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, halo, glory] – source: Love, Faith, and Dry Ice: The Afterlife on Screen

Damien didn’t know his father. ’Neither did I. Though I thought I did,’ chirps Mary in a comfortable Yorkshire accent you want to trust. He was a photographer on Jersey. Mary met him while working on the island, and was absolutely besotted with him. ’I’m one of those people: it’s all or nothing with me.’

besotted (adj) : made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied – source: Interview: Damien Hirst

The Aztecs believed the black sun was carried by the god of the underworld, and was the maleficent absolute of death. And behind the sunlight of the ’Amexican’ desert there is some maculate black light which gives nothing back; un-shining behind the music, the bustle and hot peppers tumbling from every open storefront.

maculate (adj) 1: morally blemished; stained or impure [syn: defiled] 2: spotted or blotched – source: Farewell America

It’s usually about a particular tranche of society, they’ll say, this week Tara such-and-such was wearing a hat, and someone else was wearing a hat, are we becoming a nation that really likes wearing hats? And it’s always an upper- middle-class thing, it’s never working-class. No one ever says, yesterday I saw a fat Bengali woman in a plaster cast, and then I saw another fat Bengali woman wearing a bandage. Have we become a nation of fat Bengali women with recent trips to A&E?

tranche (n) : a portion of something (especially money) – source: On Blueberry Hill