Word: pent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene which exemplifies the relationship between the movie's two main characters, Simone hysterically beats George on the face with a belt, releasing her pent-up frustration at her own past abuses at the hands of her pimp. George stands there, crying, and submits to her rage and pain. When Simone stops, realizing how she's hurt him, she bursts into tears and hugs him as if he were a helpless and confused...
...demonstrations in several cities. In Miami's Little Haiti, many of the 60,000 Haitian refugees jammed the streets and shouted, "No more Duvalier!" In Boston, a group of revelers rampaged through the Haitian consulate, destroying portraits of the ex-President. In New York City, expatriate Haitians also released pent-up emotions at a demonstration on Saturday...
...Shcharansky, 38, is only one of an estimated 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R., but he has come to stand as a compelling symbol of Soviet repression. A Jewish computer specialist, Shcharansky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972, at a time when long pent-up yearnings for freedom and justice were coming into the open in the Soviet Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time...
...love lesson around. Plus, in this song and several others, Sting shows a fine knack for layering rich choruses and leaving space for Branford Marsalis' smooth and simmering horns. But it's only with the remake of Shadows in the Rain that all the players betray and release their pent-up energies...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan was spending the Easter holiday, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes predicted that the coup would not have a major effect on Washington's close relations with Khartoum. Said a State Department official: "The demonstrations provided the release for a kind of pent-up antagonism that took on a momentum of its own." Within hours, Libya, a foe of the Nimeiri regime, became the first country to recognize Sudan's new military leaders. Despite this recognition, Western diplomats in Cairo said they were hopeful that the leaders of the 60,000-man Sudanese army would...