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Word: pockmarked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shot after shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Manhattan's Lower Depths | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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