Just the barest description of something happening in one scene/a few scenes.
A lone man in a courtroom reads some legal papers and smiles slightly.
A truck suddenly stops in an intersection, blocking a van; the surly truck driver gets knocked out by the impatient van driver.
A merry-go-round horse lifts its tail and poops eleven large dice (by actual count).
A man in a drugstore, with his eyes shut, moves the lever of an old-fashioned cigar lighter–and gets a flame.
A woman in an indoor conservatory clips roses off stems–and keeps the stems.
A brunette woman wears bizarre clothes–including a spiked dog collar–as she does laboratory work.
One man comes home drunk and despondent; one woman has a male guest at dinner who shocks her by getting her into a clench; a dog is lowered to the ground in a basket.
Sailors are ordered to strip down one by one; one jokes with the ensign about “swallowing a key.”
A typhoon-like storm hits the Gulf of Mexico–and only one boat remains afloat.
Two plainclothes policemen break in on two youths who have been taking drugs–and one turns out to be dead.
A tall man in a Hawaiian shirt races for the door to his dwelling, with two Dobermans on his heels.
A curious woman descends stairs into a basement; she finds a dressed-up skeleton under a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
A man finds a woman hanged from the ceiling, in front of a staircase–and her blood pours out of her like powder.
In a junkyard, an older man smugly carries a small grill (like for a toaster oven) to a truck; a younger man takes it from him and makes him carry a big tank to the truck.
One man talking to a group of men finds that a few others are ignoring him and playing tic-tac-toe on the table.
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Just the barest description of something happening in one scene/a few scenes.
5. A woman in an indoor conservatory clips roses off stems–and keeps the stems.
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I’m pretty sure this is Angelica Houston in The Addams Family. I haven’t a clue as to the rest.