fusses

Each time she cleans a room, she fusses through the guests’ belongings and photographs them: a stethoscope and rosary on the bedside table, a torn-up postcard, a lobster claw under the bed sheets, a pair of black heels in the trash, white underwear hanging to dry and diaries detailing “excellent lasagna,” hot baths, small bridges and good soup.

For the finale, Picasso tells Clouzot that he wants to work on something more ambitious, and, after he fusses with the face and coloring of a goat, the film switches to CinemaScope and watches as the painter toys with the facial expressions and abdominal contours of a nude woman, among other sights.

Townley fusses splendidly as the nurturing Jane and is even better as Marian, a cynical editor for the Associated Press.

Julie fusses over her mother, trying to make Rosalind happy, trying to understand her mother as she watches time slipping away.

Three times I stop paddling when Virginia fusses to be fed.