Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rage against Murdoch was part of a general anger at the present for not living up to the image in the gilded rearview mirror Potter held to his youth. In Blue Remembered Hills he re-created his West Country childhood (but with adult actors as the kids). He larded his breakthrough series, Pennies from Heaven, with sentimental tunes from his '30s infancy. "Childhood," Potter said, "is full to the brim with fear, horror, excitement, joy, boredom, love, anxiety." He was welcome to cherish his youth; he never got to savor...
...more personal story, as Mikal Gilmore searches for insight into the origin of evil by examining his family -- his mother's shattered Mormon faith, his father's secret criminal past. Both Gilmore parents, haunted by their past, took their frustrations out on their children, dooming them to lives of anger and abuse as well. Mikal quotes Gary as saying, "My father was the first person I ever wanted to murder...
More difficult still will be quelling the anger of the Tutsi, who have doubtless suffered most from Rwanda's carnage. Some, like Consolata Mukatwagirimana in the village of Nyarubuye, are resigned. "The Hutu are there," she said last week. "You can't do anything about them. You can't kill them...
...these very famous words: 'There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let's get the hell out of here!' He began to run and led us through the breach under fire. There's a kind of -- not courage, but anger and balls that mix together on a charge. But whatever you do, keep away from words like heroism. We were in the U.S. Infantry...
...Anger at economic as well as political oppression is growing in slums like the capital's Cite Soleil and in the countryside. Fuel is too expensive, so peasants can no longer afford to transport crops into the city. In some areas, people are reduced to eating boiled green mangoes and seeds. "The military got us into this mess, and they will have to pay for it," says Pierre, a father of five. Relief agencies already feed some 900,000 people, but they claim that red tape from the U.N. and the U.S. is holding up supplies. "They keep talking about...