Word: rioted
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...ineptly cuts a swath of penance through his small town. Earl is a cartoony fella--he perpetually looks as if he just lost a battle with the Road Runner--but Lee gives him a mellow decency. This story of a bad man going good badly is a redemptive riot...
Seduced and Abandoned Pietro Germi Germi's lunar eclipse of a dark comedy, which followed his Divorce Italian Style, suggests Preston Sturges run riot in Sicily. In this lunatic 1964 retooling of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (unwanted pregnancy, frantic attempt to get the girl married, small town in an uproar), Botticelli-beautiful Stefania Sandrelli is Agnese, a lamb led to the slaughter of her ideals by a father, a family and a society that values honor (status) over honesty. Germi's tireless cinematic inventiveness matches his furious pace in a magnificent satire that leaves the viewer exhausted, angry...
...another recent example). Or perhaps we should say that it is comedy only because that's the default setting for this kind of movie in the marketing department's computers. Hey, we got a funny guy and a presumptively funny situation, so it must be a laff riot. Or, at least, something we can sell as such...
...What are the clues? First, the sign above the door says Brixton Carling Academy, incorporating the name of the biggest-selling beer in Britain and main sponsors of the 77-year-old south London venue. As the Kaiser Chiefs play their closing-time anthem I Predict a Riot, it's not just any beer flying through the air, it's Carling - the only [an error occurred while processing this directive]beer for sale in any of the 16 music venues across Britain that the Molson Coors?owned brand has exclusive pouring rights for. Second, it's not just lads downing...
...immediately immensely popular. Approximately 1,500 students showed up at Lamont on the night of October 17, 2005 for a party thrown by the UC to celebrate the Library’s new hours. Tempted by fruit tarts, chocolate mousse, and burritos, students arrived en masse at the dessert riot and disposed of the food within minutes...