Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What distinguishes Sam Shepard from a score of promising and prolific young U.S. dramatists is that he is our most persistent social critic. Not that he indulges in the finger pointing that characterizes post-Watergate morality. Always in sorrow and never in anger, he exposes the dry rot that has eroded the faith and commitment of Americans to the triple pillars of society-God, family and country. His style varies from surrealistic to naturalistic to pop, and all of his plays contain an unsettling mixture of wild humor and harrowing revelation...
Behind her husband's back, the wife (Olympia Dukakis) wants to unload the house and property to a smarmy, carnally inclined real estate operator and then flee with the land shark to the cultural dreamland of Europe. The husband (James Gammon), a complicated victim of drink, anger and despondency, wants to shed the property and escape to Mexico alone...
...debate does not seem to interest Congressmen who, in an election year, don't want to anger voters who think they need aid. Congressmen are finding the increase in the Social Security tax that passed in December to be immensely unpopular, and they would like to return some cash to the pockets they recently picked...
Opponents of pre-emption yesterday expressed anger at the way Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-W.Va.), chairman of the committee, conducted the vote on pre-emption...
Pending before the Senate now is an international agreement that would stabilize sugar prices through voluntary limits on exports to the U.S. by foreign producers, chiefly the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. But the Senators, reflecting the anger with the President felt by Congressmen from farm states, are in no mood to support the pact until the Administration establishes a policy ensuring that U.S. sugar producers will not be hurt by foreign competition...