Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Interesting acting job: Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, as Stark's hard-boiled assistant, puts a snarl and growl into her radio-trained voice, spreading a small bonfire through her scenes and stealing them...
...sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into his buddy, and then travels the rest of the familiar road...
...British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not willing to grant, in one of her provinces, concessions to the U.S. as liberal as those that Britain handed over when Newfoundland was a colony. The occasional snarl-up of Canadian and U.S. legal authority rubbed Canadian pride...
...Haven traffic will no longer snarl the trip to the Yale Bowl on the Eli weekend...