Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government at the University of Texas, she said she often thinks about that day 30 years ago. When I asked her what she thinks about Kennedy now, she said she doesn't really know much about him. Yet she shares with other young people a sense of loss and anger about something they never got to know...
...blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues of the characters...
Californians were unnerved and seeking a focus for their anger. More than one burned-out homeowner wished aloud that the arsonist had gone up with his handiwork. Governor Pete Wilson compared arsonists to child molesters, offered a $250,000 bounty and requested tougher sentencing. In Washington, as President Bill Clinton promised to help the damaged areas with their "extraordinary expenses," Senator Bob Dole introduced an amendment to the crime bill that would hit arsonists with 40-year jail terms and fines reaching millions of dollars...
Jose Menendez:...A driven, relentless perfectionist of a man who brooks no failure from himself, his subordinates or his sons...Sarcastic and condescending to his unhappy wife, on whom he regularly cheats...clearly a man with deep anger...
...voters in Washington State approved a $1 billion increase to pay for a new state health-care plan, and in California, the motherland of tax protest, voters made permanent a half-cent increase in the sales tax for hiring more fire fighters and police. Even in New Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor...