Word: vented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member group helps "students interact and talk with each other about current issues in society." At the Society's first event earlier this year, the group showed the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and discussed the problems of institutionalization. Polacheck said psychology majors need to "vent our opinions" outside the classroom...
...both countries, high unemployment among youth was cited as a contributing factor. In Britain, angry crowds of blacks gave vent to feelings of injustice. In West Germany, where thousands of youths rampaged in 16 cities, the instigators seemed to be experienced rabble-rousers in search of an arena for their violence. They found it in Frankfurt, where a branch of the right-wing National Democratic Party had scheduled a weekend meeting. Because the N.D.P. is regarded by many as a haven for neo-Nazis, its gatherings inevitably bring protests. After demonstrators held a peaceful rally, several hundred hooligans, mostly young...
Last Tuesday, Reagan began the news conference with a spirited stand on free trade, an open invitation to a question that would give him a chance to vent his ire against the Democrats. Instead, reporters instantly changed the subject to the coming summit meeting with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev. From there they wandered back and forth through a dozen subjects ranging from AIDS to spies. Too few questioners seemed to hear, or care about, any answers...
...captivity, the hostages had been restrained in their comments to the ubiquitous TV cameras about their feelings toward the Amal militiamen holding them. Once freed, however, many of them began to vent their anger and bitterness, as well as resentment that their captors had been depicted as anything other than brutish fanatics. Some of the hostages distinguished between the original gunmen who hijacked the plane, thought to be from the fanatic Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), and the Amal militiamen who took control after the first two days. "Once the Amal came aboard, things seemed to settle down some...
With political writing concerning Budd's background superimposed, Donohue's piece seems more a vent for social commentary than an example of art. Not that it is ugly. it seems to be included in Boston Now: Photography, as may of the works are, because of its novel use of photography to express political or social opinion. The beauty of these works may be debated, but their novelty...