Word: vente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when real life astronauts, such as Lisa Novak, are charged with attempted murder, it is not beyond belief that the Thornton’s character throws a brick through a bank window in one of the film’s opening scenes to vent his financial frustrations. Still, Thornton, best known in recent years for his sleazy roles in “Bad Santa” and “Bad News Bears” — note the repetition of “bad” — is not believable as an earnest former astronaut...
...menswear designer Thom Browne, any bells and whistles come hidden in the stitching. His dinner jackets and tuxedos, fashioned out of workaday cotton canvas, are bedecked with old-world details like grosgrain lining on a working sleeve vent or hand-stitched working buttonholes. "The detailing is never overt," he says. "Sometimes only the owner of the thing knows about...
...some personal hardships, is at times too much to bear. There’s so much “burning,” “fading,” and “lying” that one might wonder if this album was simply one grand emotional vent. The first single off the album, “Not Capable of Love,” (its music video features Roe running over pedestrians in a pick-up truck), starts with a promising punch, but goes nowhere special. What the album really lacks is an element of surprise. After...
...outpourings. From meticulously researched historical sagas to dystopian futurism (Kisses of the Enemy), parallel universes (The Last Love Story) and magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against which Time's photographer decides to shoot him. "The way I work, anything that looks like a plan you can be damn sure it's actually an accident...
...many, however, the anonymity of boredatlamont is its greatest attraction: the ability to vent one’s frustrations and sadness without facing another person. Luckily, anonymity at Harvard is not dependent on the internet. In lieu of a comforting social scene, there are numerous resources—including Room 13, Contact, Response, and ECHO—that not only guarantee one’s anonymity, but also include human contact, and likely provide more reliable help than the pages...