Word: vent
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...tonight, but it is impossible to predict how Harvard will be feeling when it takes the ice before 15,000 fans at Boston Garden. The Crimson may be flat after dropping Saturday night's last-minute heartbreaker to Penn, or it may be ready to take B.U. apart to vent its frustration
...thrashing sinew, murderously intent on survival. A harsh and one-sided view, to be sure, yet difficult to deny. The headlines are on its side. Hughes is too cunning a craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind. Instead of giving it full vent, he gives it narrow vent -through 66 short, spare poems cast as tales or fables, like fragments of some folk epic. The effect is like that of a torrent forced through a narrow nozzle: cutting intensity and tremendous, controlled force...
...sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her chance to pierce the vulgar invaders with insights and wit, surprisingly lucid coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that good vegetable diets result in odorless feces, Catherine flips on the blender. The noise is surprising, perfectly timed. Similarly, Anna twice fires a silver gun, loaded with blanks, first at Ceil, then at Bob Stein. The first shot, before the Stein...
...more dangerous than when it is open." A mother kicked in the shin by her four-year-old, for example, should not react with a hypocritical mixture of hidden venom and saccharin: "We don't kick people, do we? Say you are sorry, darling." Instead, she should vent her feelings honestly and shout at the child "or even swat...
...used for their Rabelaisian potential. Most do not bear quoting, but here is a mild example: EXTENDING THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AND EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT OUR CARNAL RELATIONSHIP MAY CONTINUE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. By buying nonseasonal cards, the frustrated shopper might even be able to vent the hostility that Christmas pressures frequently evoke. LET ME GET ANGRY JUST ONCE WITHOUT APOLOGIZING FOR IT would seem a suitable sentiment for family and loved ones, I DON'T LIKE YOU would do for any number of minions who expect tips...