Word: pent
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...There is a lot of pent-up anger in people, and now it is blowing," says Endy Bayuni, managing editor of the Jakarta Post newspaper. "Now it is revenge time." It was the very symbols of the country's new wealth that became the targets of last week's rioting: shopping malls were looted and torched, car dealerships were destroyed, the new toll road from the airport was commandeered by lawless mobs who threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year...
...rewarded stations for pursuing just this kind of story, though typically less bloody ones. "Usually the ratings shoot sky-high, and the viewers use their remote controls and zap from station to station. They watch them," says Perret. Explains Manhattan psychologist Steven Fishman: "A lot of people have pent-up emotions, so it's cathartic for them to observe such violent action." But, says Sissela Bok, an ethicist at Harvard: "That just shows that the lines between news and entertainment have become very blurred." Former TV news producer Derwin Johnson, a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism...
Maybe, mom had to work two jobs just to meet the rent, and asking for a viola seemed an incredibly misplaced and futile request. Perhaps their local community was economically depressed. Maybe, instead of Mr. Perry to show them how to release the pent-up emotions inside, they could only muster up a can of spray paint and a freeway underpass...
...patriarch, who offers no clue to any of his actions or offenses against his children. Danner gets next to nothing to do as the sensible, yet oddly passive mother; and Kerwin's Elliot, a psychotherapist with no apparent therapeutic skills, remains a mere cipher, a receptacle for Mia's pent-up rage...
Emotional intimacy came late to Carson as well. Lear's account delicately suggests that Carson discovered great passion only at 46, and with a married woman at that. Carson poured a lifetime's pent-up feelings into her letters and encounters with Dorothy Freeman, an amateur naturalist and Maine neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson...