Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...startling reversal, British Prime Minister John Major rescinded his government's six-day-old order to close 31 coal mines within five months. The closures would have resulted in the loss of jobs for 30,000 miners and staff. Faced with mutiny within his own party and widespread public anger over the callous treatment of coal workers, Major delayed the closing of 10 of the mines until after the first of the year. The fate of the remaining 21 mines awaits the results of a study on the future of coal mining in the U.K., not a cheery prospect...
...most powerful scene in the play, wonderfully directed by Phoebe Wray, in which Leon Czolgosz tells of the torture of slaving over a hot oven in a bottle-making factory, but cannot bring himself to release his anger by breaking a bottle at a bar, is almost too painful to watch...
...randomness of it all makes everyone a possible victim and a possible assailant. Sit in the Tasty in the wee hours of the morning, and watch assembled oddballs stagger in, argue and stumble out. Their mere presence, as drugged or drunk uncertainties, conjures up the worst fears of anger, assault and guns...
Valerie Weinstein's direction and Yvonne Roemer's choreography of this production are also only partially successful. The characters' movements, even in the segments involving no dancing, are highly stylized--Medea waves her arms in ostentatious anger and the chorus members clutch their stomachs when Medea mentions killing her children. This type of exaggerated, ritualistic movement is apparently in recognition of the classic origins of the play...
According to West, Blacks today aredemonstrating a different kind of anger: "rawrage--coarser, less open for dialogue" thanprevious Black resistance to societaldehumanization...