Word: acridity
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...best thing about these movies is their acrid sting. They say the Eisenhower years were too complex to be remembered as just Hula-Hoops and hair grease. And that is fine with us old '50s types. When nostalgia is true, it hurts...
...from grotesque events they uncover. Nor do they condescend unduly to the queens and pawns in their investigation. The cops are just doing a job -- one that makes their off-duty lives look drab and irrelevant. Scenes of Tennison's wan private life are mere leavening agents in the acrid yet tangy melodrama that is her life on the force -- the only life she has, really...
...heroic" suicide bomber of Afula. Boys pelted Israeli military headquarters in Gaza City with stones, then waited for the inevitable rubber bullets. A donkey carcass lay rotting by the side of the road in Jabalia camp. Small boys dragged tires to construct a barricade, filling the air with the acrid smell of burning rubber. A few miles away, the police building stood empty, the morning's expectation of handshakes and smiles all but forgotten...
...With such details, a sports film can appeal even when it is about spring training -- for how many other kinds of contemporary films actually show people working? An athlete's job may be more glamorous and hazardous than most, the payoff quicker and richer, the taste of failure more acrid. But that urge and pressure to do well at work is universal and an honorable subject for films. As Shelton says, "There are real adult issues that come up: issues of triumph and loss and honor and craft...
...acrid, urban stench of motor vehicle exhaust will be attenuated today by the sweet aroma of blossoming flowers at the corner of Bow and Plympton Streets...