Word: outletting
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...some cases, restraint involved outright self-censorship. When two black teachers at South Boston High were beaten and their cars were smashed, the incident was ignored at WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...
While America looked on numbly, Joe McCarthy bullied Senators and scholars in his wild search for Reds in high places. Thousands of boys went off to Korea in a war that was as complex and controversial as the one in Viet Nam, but protest found its outlet at the polls, not in the streets. Ike's promise, "I shall go to Korea," was enough to quiet the nation. In the '50s the flag remained unassailable, the military beyond challenge. After all, only a few years before, another group of boys had gone off to war and had returned...
...bureaucracy, his only outlet may be a reporter who will protect his anonymity while publishing the facts. Most newsmen feel that without leaks, the Government would simply control all news about itself...
...novel where Tarnopol has tried to order the disorder of his marriage lies, in reams of rejected drafts and re-drafts, in several cardboard cartons. On them the writer has pasted a quotation from Flaubert, speaking of how art can become "an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an overflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate." So, however, does Roth's book, despite all the cool distance of formal self-consciousness: it is impossible to read a book which treats a writer's life with such sordid particularity and not find oneself automatically extending the sordidness...
Among all the flaws in this movie-the numbing literalness, the flagrant absence of subtlety-nothing is quite so wrong as Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich installed her in the lead as if she were some sort of electrical appliance being plugged into an outlet. Shepherd has a home-fried hauteur good enough for the one-dimensional roles she played in The Last Picture Show and The Heartbreak Kid. She knows how to strike poses for the camera (she used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath...