Word: pent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During World War II, 40,000 workers were turning out military vehicles, and after the war, 30,000 were still at work there trying to fill the nation's pent-up demand for cars. At the peak in the late '40s and early '50s, 55,000 people, most of them Polish Americans, crammed the pin-neat houses pinched together on 30-ft. lots along residential streets like McDougall, Yemans and Poland. Every morning almost the entire working population would trudge off to Dodge Main. Hamtramck was a joyous, clean, democratic, workingman's town that drew Harry...
...Pent Markowitz...
...Crimson Key shows Love Story every year, so that you can ogle the Harvard settings and release all that pent-up aggression by jeering at former Yale professor Erich Segal's heart-burning drivel. You can also think about the decay of Ali McGraw's and Ryan O'Neal's careers since then--proof, I guess, that there is a God. Last year, as Ryan whined, "Love--(beat)--means never having to say you're sorry," the film got caught in the projector and a big brown blotch quickly bubbled over his face, smote, perhaps, by that great Film Critic...
Little pink or purple pills, we ate them after mid-year exams with all the snow collecting dirt around the Square, between the jaws of pressure and frightening independence, pent-up wildness careening off the inner walls of confused, lateadolescent minds...
...enough. Even an actor as powerful as Scott cannot make up for the paucity of invention. And the frantic action of the conclusion seems more confession of failure than release of pent-up emotion. Sensational though Hardcore is, unblinking as it is in examining a tawdry scene, it is a serious effort, not an exploitation film. Its failure is entirely honor able, and its successful moments make it worthy of attention. But it is, regrettably, a failure...