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Word: cabbagehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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Usage:

...screen is about as tetchy an operation as carrying nitroglycerin in a sieve, but Director James Hill, in his first full-length film, has done the job with a sure hand. He shuts the spectator up in that hellhole of a kitchen until he feels like a cabbagehead after 74 minutes in a pressure cooker. If Leftist Wesker expects moviegoers, at the end of the film, to rise and shake off their chains, he is going to be disappointed. They will hardly have the strength to rise and put on their coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pressure Cooker | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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