Word: wrenchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back and sucks in his success-connoting paunch while spinning around in his comfortable command chair. But after all, Kirk is now a crotchety old Admiral (Chief of Starfleet Operations, no less) who's almost sexual obsession with his old command as captain of the Enterprise impels him to wrench the captaincy out of the hands of the new leader of the Enterprise--Captain William Decker (Stephen Collins...
...complete with identifiable candidates who are easily held accountable for their issue postions. Now, instead of comparing pro- and anti- rent control and condo-conversion candidates, Cantabrigians will have to figure out what to make of the CCC. Since their "deplorization" stand makes little sense, they are a monkey wrench in the system. If Cambridge's landlords and real estate brokers are responsible for that wrench, it is a low blow. If it is only naivete of glacial proportions, it still serves as a scary notice of the encroachment of style on the substance of American politics...
...hamburger joint in Tulsa last February, a man in his mid-20s sat down, ordered a Coke, and then pulled out a pipe wrench and began beating the customer next to him. After that he jumped on the counter, shouting "Now you know I mean business!" and demanded the money in the cash register. He got it - $200 - and vanished, leaving behind stunned customers and a bloody victim...
...artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though at heart he was a great American romantic-an artist who celebrated the nobility of ordinary objects and people...
...there's no reason to try to do anything more than that with the movie. Friedkin was not even a bad choice for the man to do it. Although he has a reputation from The Exorcist and The French Connection as a calculating director who stops at nothing to wrench an audience's guts, he also has done this sort of nostalgic tribute before. The Night They Raided Minsky's was a rollicking adventure about vaudeville in America. But since then Friedkin seems to have decided that he would also stop at nothing to put an audience into hysterics...