Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazing intensity. Blight's torturous, sleepless nights while in Tahiti, Hopkins reveals his character's inner turmoil. Bligh realizes that by allowing his men to frolic with the native women he is losing his control on them, yet if he forces them to stay on board the ship, their anger will take physical form. Hopkins makes Blight's difficult position palpable and his confused actions almost understandable...
...simply, it all started with Ray. Raymond Del co. a contractor from Bristol, R.I. is having an affair with the major's wife, Sheila. The mayor, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. in a fit of anger that ultimately would make him ex-mayor and Sheila his ex-wife came over to Ray's house on March 20, 1983 and beat him up with first, his fists, then an ashtray, then a fireplace log, and finally a burning cigarette...
...aggressive investigation, so sure that a scandal lurked behind every closed door, that eventually a disdainful public began to comment on the "post-Watergate syndrome." Nowhere did the syndrome take hold more than at the Post itself, and nowhere does it hold more sway. A tone of suspicion, often anger, pervades many news stories. Some political pieces sound more like editorials: a reporter's interpretive rebuttal often appears higher in the story than the official statement he or she is rebutting, especially in stories about the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America. The Post is often arrogant...
...woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor, who conveniently falls in love with the granddaughter and forgets Fitzgerald. Worth is, as ever and always, in supreme command of the stage, and Channing and Daniels are both...
Cobb's drive to succeed and the intense unhappiness he suffered as a result of his fits of anger, are well portrayed in Alexander's book, which offers a striking psychological portrait of the man. But instead of using this portrait as a jumping-off point for some broader observations, Alexander is content to stick to talking about baseball as a man with a Passion might--telescopically. The approach is not invalid, for Alexander offers a fair-minded and insightful biography. But this view is limiting and, ultimately, boring for the non-fanatic...