Word: wrenchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroine enters to save the day. Michelle Pfeiffer stumbles in, three hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...
Critics of the deal complained that it would not quickly raise Time's stock to the level of Paramount's bid. "Time management had a plan to build an empire, and somebody threw a wrench into that plan by offering the shareholders a better price," said Ralph Whitworth, director of the United Shareholders Association, a Washington-based advocacy group. "It should have been left up to the shareholders to decide" how to vote on Paramount's proposal. Disappointed Time stockholders may be inclined to bring lawsuits accusing the company of failing to look after their immediate interests. Said...
...unexpected swiftness of the UMass goalie also put a wrench in the offensive plans...
...seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that wistful novel of eco-banditry The Monkey Wrench Gang...
...there is also an unbelievable romantic element which seems to be Thompson's idealization as he looks back on his college years. Thompson relies on an episodic structure which, though it does have great moments, doesn't hold the film together well. His trademark of using little moments to wrench the heart is not cohesive. This incoherence, particularly toward the end of the film, pushes over-romanticized events beyond the realm of believability...