Word: furiousness
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...officials ruled that the Bruin kicker's attempt--which hit the uprights and bounced off--was wide. That set off a furious protest from the entire Bruin squad, and raised the eyebrows of almost everyone in the stadium...
Happily, all of that furious and frantic preparation, from Edisto, S.C., to Eastport, Me., turned out to be a storm before a comparative lull. After G hour had come and gone, first on the barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced...
...this performance is such a revelation. The depth Redgrave gives her character makes every move convincing, as when Jean risks making a similar "mistake" by letting another stranger into her life, this time a girl named Karen with whom Morgan had become obsessed. Suzanna Hamilton plays this variably vacant, furious, and wise creature with uncanny control. The police officer (Stuart Wilson) gets the best lines in Wetherby as consolation for losing his girlfriend to her ex-husband ("He's an awful man...the kind that keeps sheep.") "Peripheral" characters get their say in the world; all the subplots are consistently...
...four nail-biting days, furious Elena was manic and capricious. First the storm feinted at New Orleans, then howled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, then veered off abruptly. The hurricane lunged and snarled at about 500 miles of waterfront in four states like a vicious dog on a leash. Many in its projected path began to feel like Service Station Attendant Johnny Leland in Yankeetown, Fla., who said, "I can't stand this. I just wish the s.o.b. would come in, hit us and get it over with...
...insinuated from the pulpit that she was a lesbian. "I don't know for sure why she changed her name," he taunted. When the local newspaper did a story about how much church money went to purchase TV time and how little was allotted to outside charities, Falwell was furious. "The day may come," he told his applauding congregation, "when we just have to take away one fourth of (the paper's) subscription list and their advertising...