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Chapter 14 Flashcards

1
Q

He ______ his long bristly beard and ________us with his piercing, bloodshot eyes.

A

strokes; regards

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His neck is ________ an angry red, highlighting every little bump, mole, and broken capillary.

A

stained

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3
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I can’t tell if he’s getting ready to ______________________ or if he’s just thinking really hard.

A

blow his stack

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I can’t tell if he’s getting ready to _________________________ or if he’s just thinking really hard.

A

blow his stack

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5
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blow one’s stack means

A

lose one’s temper

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6
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The thick scent of smoke and stale pizza and uncomfortable silence _______ the oxygen out of the kitchen.

A

chokes

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7
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Uncle Doug _______ his cigarette. He sniffs, then clears his hroat.

A

crushes out

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8
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He’d give you the five K, Coop answers. Because he could see the ______ of the whole sitch.

A

upside

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9
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product placement means

A

a practice in which manufacturers of goods or providers of a service gain exposure for their products by paying for them to be featured in movies and television programs.

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10
Q

Not to mention the chance to turn a small investment into a __________.

A

mega-fortune

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11
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But I want to heart it from Seanie. Would you lend me the money or not?

I don’t know. My gaze _____________ the scratched-up wooden kitchen table.

A

drops to

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12
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Might? or Would? He _______ the side. Come on now.

A

leans to

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13
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huevos rancheros means

A

a dish of fried or poached eggs served on a tortilla with a spicy tomato sauce; testicales

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14
Q

Fair enough. So now I need you to look me ____________________ and tell me if you honestly think that you’ll be able to produce a motion picture decent enough to gnerate enough money fory ou to pay me back.

A

square in the face

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15
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Uh-uh. Uncle Doug ____ me with an emtpy pack of cagarettes.

A

beans

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16
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bean means

A

to hit (someone) on the head.

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17
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Wrong! Uncle Doug roars, slapping the table, which causes a thin cloud of _____________________ dust to rise in the air.

A

tobacco-scented

18
Q

Uncle Doug grabs the ________ from his ashtray, straightens it out, and relights it.

A

extinguished joint

19
Q

Business plan? I blink, my eyes dry and __________ from the smoke.

A

stinging

20
Q

A what? I ask, sinking down in my chair.

A budget, _____________

A

dummkopf

21
Q

What do you have for me? Some comparative box-office analysis? a marketing strategy? A film trailer? A script, ___________? Anything?

A

perchance

22
Q

______________________ understand that you would like me to be an investor in your film project? One that has no budget? No business plan? No marketing strategy? No script? To be produced by people who have absolutely no movie-making experience? He bobs his head _____________.

A

Am I to; in the affirmative

23
Q

Okay, well, _____ a point for stupid honesty. He makes an imaginary check mark in the air with his smoldering ___________.

A

notch; roach

24
Q

Obsviously, investing in your film would be an ______________________________.

A

idiotic colossal gamble

25
Q

I guess it could be __________________ shoving afistful of cash up your asshole and expecting you to ___________ gold coins.

A

likened to; shit out

26
Q

Uhp. Uncle Doug cuts me off with a ____________________.

A

traffic cop hand (traffic stop hand)

27
Q

All right, now, Uncle Doug continues, let me just say this right off the bat. There’s no way in hell I’m giving you kids five thousand dollars to _________________.

A

piss away on a movie

28
Q

But. Uncle Doug happens to be a gambler. And he ______ cards. He __________ horses. He once even _____ that his tongue was longer than every other guy’s at his MOnday night poker game.

A

bets on; bets on; bets

29
Q

But hey, could the odds of me _________ your movie be much worse than Powerball? At two hundred million to one, I doubt it. And if I can lay a hundred bucks on that every week, why not bet a cool grand on my _____ nephew?

A

getting rich off; bozo

30
Q

bozo means

A

a stupid, rude, or insignificant person, especially a man.

31
Q

That’s great.

You _____________________ it’s great!

A

bet your sweet ass

32
Q

Don’t go ________________ just yet, mister. He plops himseelf back down into his chair and _________________ another cigarette.

A

slicking your slacks; taps out

33
Q

If you actually do __________ and win this contest, Uncle Doug wants twenty-five percent of the the prize money plus fifty percent of any subsequent profits thereafter.

A

manage a miracle

34
Q

Coop leans forward. Okay wait a second–

Condition ___________.

A

numero dos

35
Q

Condition numero dos. Doug holds up his fingers in a __________________________.

A

pudgy peace sign

36
Q

As your new executive producer and partner, I am now going to be intimately involved in all aspects of this production. I want to have ___________, of course.

A

full script approval

37
Q

Uncle Doug shurgs. I am not about to have my good name ______ with a piece-of-crap movie. I have a reputation to _______.

A

associated; uphold

38
Q

This kind of thing could have major _______________________ my business.

A

repercussions on

39
Q

I could lose customers that way. NOpe. I want to see each and every scene before it’s filmed.

All right, I ______. Si that everything.

A

concede

40
Q

All right, then. Uncle Doug rubs his hands together. I’m glad we’re all so ____________. Now onto my final _____________. He grins. His one you’re really not going to like.

A

amenable; stipulation

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